Abortion Restrictions and Intimate Partner Violence in the Dobbs Era

Tuesday October 21st at 7:30 pm, live on Zoom

In overturning Roe v. Wade and triggering laws in many states that ban or severely restrict abortions, the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 Dobbs decision dramatically altered the landscape for reproductive health in the U.S. Prior research has highlighted the far-reaching impact of abortion restrictions for women and families, which extend beyond their proximate effects on abortions, births, and fertility. In my talk I will provide some of the first causal evidence on how abortion restrictions in the post-Dobbs era have impacted women’s risk of exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) which is the most common form of violence experienced by women.

Speaker: Professor Bilge Erten, From a paper with: D. Dave, C. Durrance, Y. Wang and B. Wolfe

Bilge Erten is Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Her research interests focus on gender, health, and education including the causes and consequences of domestic violence. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Sloan Foundation, the NBER/Gates Foundation and others. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, the Huffington Post, the Bloomberg View, and Time, among others.

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