@article {Wu144, author = {Lawrence L. Wu and Nicholas D. E. Mark}, title = {Could We Level the Playing Field? Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Nonmarital Fertility, and Poverty in the United States}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, pages = {144--166}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.08}, publisher = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences}, abstract = {Could we combat poverty by reducing the number of unintended and nonmarital births? This article proposes a federal policy that would provide all women with information about, and free access to, a range of contraceptive services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives; reviews what it is that we do and do not know; discusses several dynamic selection mechanisms by which this policy could lead to poverty reductions; stresses the need for longitudinal randomized intent-to-treat pilots that would provide causal evidence on whether this policy would in fact reduce poverty; and provides rough estimates of take-up, costs, and benefits were such a policy to substantially increase the use of highly effective contraceptive methods.}, issn = {2377-8253}, URL = {https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/144}, eprint = {https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/144.full.pdf}, journal = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences} }