Table 3.

OLS Regression Coefficients Predicting the Birthrate, by Access to the Pill, Access to Abortion, and Type of Birth

	Births Data Used to Compute Dependent Variable
	All Births (1)	Nonmarital Births (2)	First Births (3)	Nonmarital First Births (4)	Second+ Births (5)	All Births Monthly (6)	All Births (7)	All Births in Levels (8)
Whites
Access to the Pill	−0.085* (0.041)	−0.052 (0.038)	−0.090† (0.045)	−0.083* (0.038)	−0.036 (0.059)	0.019 (0.032)	−0.020 (0.045)	−7.599* (3.243)
Access to abortion	−0.100† (0.054)	−0.172** (0.049)	−0.098 (0.063)	−0.164** (0.029)	−0.080 (0.053)	−0.155** (0.032)	−0.137** (0.037)	−14.412** (3.654)
Nonwhites
Access to the Pill	0.009 (0.051)	0.016 (0.036)	−0.005 (0.062)	−0.048 (0.057)	0.088 (0.066)	0.051 (0.037)	0.051 (0.077)	−5.971 (3.846)
Access to abortion	−0.030 (0.058)	−0.080* (0.034)	−0.012 (0.077)	−0.001 (0.070)	0.006 (0.068)	−0.052 (0.034)	−0.104† (0.054)	−12.834** (3.293)
Different Between Races?
Access to the Pill	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Access to abortion	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Age, State, Year Fixed Effects	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
State × Year Unrestricted Fixed Effects	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Month Fixed Effects						x
Weighted by Population?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Number of Observations	4,284	4,284	4,284	4,284	4,284	47,124	4,284	4,284

Notes: Robust standard errors taking account of clustering at the state level are shown in parentheses. Regressions are weighted by population for each state-year-age cell. Each column in each panel represents a different regression. When birthrate = 0, ln(Birthrate) is replaced with ln(1 / 2) except in column 8, where it is zero. Access to the Pill = 1 if minor age a in state s in year t had access to the birth control pill without parental involvement in year t − 1. Access to abortion = 1 if minor age a in state s in year t had access to abortion without parental involvement in year t − 1. Because of space constraints, the coefficient estimates for the other variables are not reported.

^†p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01