A POOLED TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF ABORTION DEMAND

This study estimates the demand for abortion in the United States usin g state data pooled over years 1992 and 1982. The empirical results sh owed that the price elasticity of abortion demand ranged from -0.70 to -0.99 and an income elasticity between 0.27 and 0.35. The demand for abortion was found (1) not to be statistically related to a woman's ed ucational level; (2) to be higher the greater a state's taste for abor tion; (3) coincident with the business cycle; and (4) not to be relate d to the level of a state's welfare payment.