The paper “ Does Increasing Financial Access to Contraception in the U.S. Reduce Undesired Pregnancies? Evidence from the M-CARES Randomized Control Trial at Two Years” by UCLA Professor Martha Bailey and coauthors was featured in the New York Times. The paper uses a randomized controlled trial to examine how the costs of contraception affect choice of contraception method, pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth among U.S. women. The paper finds that subsidizing contraception has significant and persistent effects on the choice of contraceptive method, resulting in significantly fewer pregnancies and abortions within two years.

The paper can be found here.

The NYT article can be found here.