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- Title
THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT LAWS ON YOUTH SUICIDE.
- Authors
SABIA, JOSEPH J.; REES, DANIEL I.
- Abstract
Using state-level data on suicides from the period 1987 to 2003, we find that the adoption of a law requiring a parent's notification or consent before a minor can obtain an abortion is associated with an 11%-21% reduction in the number of 15- through 17-year-old females who commit suicide. In contrast, the adoption of a parental involvement law is not associated with a reduction in the number of older females who commit suicide or in the number of 15- through 17-year-old males who commit suicide. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that parental involvement laws represent an increase in the expected cost of having unprotected sex, and, as a consequence, serve to protect young females from depression and what have been termed 'stressful life events' such as conflict with a parent or an abortion.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SUICIDE -- Law &; legislation; PARENTS; ADOLESCENCE; ABORTION in the United States; ABORTION laws; AMERICAN law; UNSAFE sex; SEXUAL intercourse; DEPRESSION in adolescence; UNWANTED pregnancy
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 1, p620
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00440.x