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Parkin, Katherine J. The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe

Theodore Joyce
Journal of Economic Literature 2026 64(3), 1066-1067
Theodore Joyce of Baruch College, CUNY reviews “The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe” by Katherine J. Parkin. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the ways that people bought and sold abortion access in the United States, focusing on the amount of money poured into laying the groundwork for that access, including its ultimate legalization with Roe v. Wade.”

Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

Michael Grossman; Theodore J. Joyce
Journal of Political Economy 1990 98(5), 983-1007
This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self-selection in the resolution of pregnancies as live births or induced abortions and in the use of prenatal medical care services. We also incorporate the decision of a pregnant woman to give birth.

Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City

Michael Grossman; Theodore Joyce
Journal of Political Economy 1990 98(5, Part 1), 983-1007
This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control. We present the first infant health production functions that simultaneously control for self-selection in the resolution of pregnancies as live births or induced abortions and in the use of prenatal medical care services. We also incorporate the decision of a pregnant woman to give birth.