{"title":"Family Comes First: Reproductive Health and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship","authors":"Jonathan Zandberg","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3362347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3362347","url":null,"abstract":"Better access to reproductive healthcare increases women’s propensity to become entrepreneurs. Access correlates positively with female entrepreneurial activity and negatively with female entrepreneurial age. Examining firm size and personal income suggests it also improves success of female-led businesses. None of these results hold when tested on men, women above 40, or other placebo professions. To establish causality, I exploit Roe v. Wade, state laws restricting abortion providers, and an index tracking state-level regulation of reproductive care. All three analyses suggest that policies securing better reproductive care enable more women to become entrepreneurs. I conclude by discussing various possible channels and mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":438141,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Reproductive Rights (Topic)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130959200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birth of Surrogate Motherhood Law: An Economic Analysis of Institutional Reform","authors":"Pavel Kuchar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2433941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2433941","url":null,"abstract":"Why is surrogacy enforceable in some of the US jurisdictions and not in others? In what way does the enforcement of surrogate motherhood contracts effect the number of exchanges between intended parents and surrogate mothers? Throughout the last two decades of the twentieth century, public approval of surrogate motherhood, as expressed in opinion surveys, increased. Using data from surveys carried out through the period 1983-1992 I examine the relationship between approval of surrogate motherhood and time to legal institutional change. By means of duration analysis I show that, through political processes, changing beliefs effect institutional change. Other factors, including accidents, imitation, and historical conditions, are also shown to have an effect on the probability of legal institutional change. By means of a comparative institutional analysis I show that between the years 2003 and 2012 states with judge-made-surrogacy law registered systematically higher number of surrogate motherhood contracts than other states.","PeriodicalId":438141,"journal":{"name":"LSN: Reproductive Rights (Topic)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124132081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}