Your browser doesn't support javascript.
loading
Mostrar: 20 | 50 | 100
Resultados 1 - 1 de 1
Filtrar
Mais filtros










Base de dados
Intervalo de ano de publicação
1.
Soc Biol ; 46(1-2): 62-81, 1999.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10842502

RESUMO

Data for a sample of 89 countries are used to examine societal-level predictors of the legal status of abortion and its incidence as indicated by abortion rates. Measures of socioeconomic development, women's labor force participation, and dominant religion are considered as predictors of abortion. Logistic regression analysis reveals that socioeconomic development has a positive effect on the probability of abortion being legal. Both a greater dominance of Catholicism and Islam in a society reduce the probability that abortion is legal. Results of tobit analyses show that development has curvilinear effects on abortion rates, with lower rates of abortion at both the lower and higher ends of development. Findings also indicate a positive effect of female labor force participation on the abortion rate that initially grows stronger with increases in socioeconomic development, but weakens with further increases. Finally, a greater proportion of Catholics in a population lowers the abortion rate.


PIP: This cross-societal analysis examines the net effects of socioeconomic development, women's labor force participation, and dominant religion on both the legality and incidence of abortion. Available abortion data for a sample of 89 countries was utilized in this study. The logistic regression analysis showed that socioeconomic development has a positive effect on the probability of abortion being legal. The predominance of Catholicism and Islam in a society significantly lowers the likelihood of legalizing abortion. In the tobit analysis, development has curvilinear effects on abortion rates, with lower rates of abortion at both the lower and higher ends of development. Results also indicate a positive effect of female labor force participation on the abortion rate, which initially grows stronger with increases in socioeconomic development but weakens with further increases. Lastly, a greater proportion of Catholics in a population lowers the abortion rate.


Assuntos
Aborto Induzido/estatística & dados numéricos , Aborto Legal/estatística & dados numéricos , Comparação Transcultural , Feminino , Humanos , Razão de Chances , Gravidez , Análise de Regressão , Religião , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Mulheres Trabalhadoras/estatística & dados numéricos
SELEÇÃO DE REFERÊNCIAS
DETALHE DA PESQUISA
...