Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023
Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics … administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … 1940. Moreover, birth control clinics had a significant and meaningful negative effect on the incidence of stillbirths and …