The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility

Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra; Myers, Caitlin Knowles

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4634430

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“…Based on data from the CDC, birth rates in the first 6 months of 2023 have risen by an average of 2.3% in states enforcing total abortion bans compared to states where abortion rights remain protected, amounting to approximately 32,000 additional annual births resulting from Dobbs abortion bans. 21 The effect of Dobbs on health care dynamics and whether vasectomies will mitigate the changing birth rates remains to be seen.…”

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“…However, initial studies have found that all states outlawing abortion have had an increase in births following Dobbs , suggesting that the reproductive landscape has uniformly changed in states with similar abortion laws. 21 Moving forward, it will be crucial to understand whether this interest in vasectomies is sustained nationally, and if these men have different levels of vasectomy regret or increased demand for vasectomy reversals.…”

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Short-Term Changes in Vasectomy Consults and Procedures Following Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Zhu,

Nam,

Gingrich

et al. 2024

Urology Practice

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Introduction: On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court issued its decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs). This decision had major implications on female reproductive choices, but also had potential implications on their male counterparts. We sought to determine the association of Dobbs with the number and characteristics of men seeking vasectomy. Methods: A retrospective review was performed to determine the number of vasectomy consults and procedures completed at a single Michigan health system in the 6 months following Dobbs (June 24, 2022-December 24, 2022) vs the same 6-month time frame between 2019 and 2021. Another retrospective review was conducted in the 3 months following Dobbs (June 24, 2022-September 24, 2022) vs the same days in 2021 to determine the number of vasectomy consults completed and to evaluate for differences in the characteristics of these men. Results: In the 6 months after Dobbs, there was a 150% and 160% increase in vasectomy consults and procedures completed, respectively, compared to a similar time frame in 2019 to 2021. In the 3 months after Dobbs, there was a 225% increase in new vasectomy consults compared to a similar time frame in 2021. There were no differences in the age, race, religion, median household income, or insurance type of men seeking vasectomy consult pre-vs post-Dobbs. Partnerless men (odds ratio 3.66) and those without children (odds ratio 2.85) were more likely than married men and those with 3 or more children, respectively, to seek vasectomy consult post-Dobbs. Conclusions: Dobbs was associated with a marked increase in vasectomy consultations and procedures at our institution in the state of Michigan. Future studies are needed to determine the longterm implications of Dobbs on vasectomy practices and determine if vasectomy practices differ by states and their respective abortion laws.

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Short-Term Changes in Vasectomy Consults and Procedures Following Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Zhu,

Nam,

Gingrich

et al. 2024

Urology Practice

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“…This necessitates dropping some states in datasets for which those states do not appear in every year. SDID has been shown in some contexts to outperform two-way fixed effects models based on having superior power and insensitivity in power to selection of the pre-treatment period by the analyst (Dench et al, 2024). In this case this advantage may be balanced against the need to drop some states from the some analytic samples.…”

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Comprehensive E-cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use among Youth and Adults

Saffer,

Ozdogan,

Grossman

et al. 2024

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“…We provide the first empirical evidence by exploiting newly released provisional state resident birth counts (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2023) to estimate how births are changing in ban states relative to states where abortion access has not been restricted or threatened since the Dobbs decision. We registered a pre-analysis plan and code at Open Science Framework in October 2023, before the release of the 2nd quarter of provisional birth data, in which we used a simulated power analysis in the pre-period following Black et al (2022) to ensure that the method we choose for analysis is well-suited to detect e↵ects within the range of what may be expected (Dench and Pineda-Torres, 2023). Based on the results and analysis plan, we utilize Arkhangelsky et al's (2021) Synthetic Di↵erence-in-Di↵erences (SDID) using bootstrap inference, which we found always provides for smaller minimum detectable e↵ects (MDE) than two-way fixed e↵ects (TWFE) with cluster robust standard errors.…”

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confidence: 99%