Congratulations to Middlebury's Erik Bleich & Christopher Star on this fascinating new article on the idea of 'apocalypse' The Conversation U.S..
theconversation.com/how-apocalypse…

Always love The Upshot data viz! No matter how hard I might try, their maps are always going to look cooler. Josh Katz Margot Sanger-Katz Claire Cain Miller.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Florida's 6-week ban abortion ban is big deal. Appreciated the chance to talk about it--and all the things we don't yet know about how many folks with get in under the threshold, drive 11+ hours, or mail-order pills--with Ailsa Chang NPR

npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

New analysis📊 by Sara Estep builds upon abortion travel time data from Dr. Caitlin Knowles Myers to show the average one-way driving time to abortion clinics by congressional district level. Check out the map here! americanprogress.org/article/aborti…

'19 million women who are eligible for publicly funded contraception live in “contraceptive deserts,” counties where access to health centers offering the full range of contraceptives is limited.' -Prof. Caitlin Knowles Myers

Deciding if or when to become a mother is one of the single largest economic decisions many women will make in their lifetimes.

Watch Caitlin Knowles Myers on how reproductive policy is fundamentally economic policy.   #NoRightsToSpeakOf

Please RT! Kasey Buckles and I are hiring a pre-doc to start this summer as part of University of Notre Dame's poverty initiative.

The person will work closely with Kasey and I on our projects. Kasey is working on economic history/demography using the Census Tree

jobs.nd.edu/postings/33588

NEW OPINION PIECE
'The impact of abortion bans on birth rates - A detailed study following key US Supreme Court ruling'
By Mayra Pineda-Torres, Daniel Dench (both from Georgia Tech /Georgia Tech School of Economics) and Caitlin Knowles Myers of Middlebury College

wol.iza.org/opinions/the-i…

.Caitlin Knowles Myers demonstrates that the #Dobbs decision affects the particularly poor and vulnerable population. npr.org/2023/11/24/121…

Check out her earlier work Journal_PopEcon Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the USA, 1960–2020 link.springer.com/article/10.100…