State Prescription Contraception Insurance Mandates: Effects on Unintended Births.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the effects of state prescription contraception insurance mandates on unintended, mistimed, and unwanted births in a sample of privately insured recent mothers.

Data

We pooled Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data from 1997 to 2012 to study 209,964 privately insured recent mothers in 24 states, 11 of which implemented prescription contraception coverage mandates between 2000 and 2008.

Study design

Individual-level difference-in-differences models compare the probability of unintended birth among privately insured recent mothers in state-years with mandates to those in state-years without mandates. Additional models use aggregate data to estimate the effect of mandates on states' number of unintended births.

Principal findings

SUBMITTER: Johnston EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682137 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature