Anticipatory impacts of the repeal of Roe v. Wade on female college applicants
研究了罗诉韦德案被推翻的预期如何影响女性申请大学的比例，发现禁止堕胎州的大学女性申请者比例相对下降近一个百分点，表明申请者对州生育健康政策敏感。
We examined the relative impact of the anticipated repeal of Roe v. Wade on the share of female applicants to universities in states where abortion was banned compared with universities in states where abortion remained legal. Using the Common Data Sets from 71 of the top 100 institutions in the United States spanning 27 states from academic years 2018-2022, we found that there was a nearly one percentage point relative decrease in the share of female undergraduate applicants to institutions in ban states compared with states in which abortion remained legal. This suggests that undergraduate applicants are sensitive to state reproductive health policies and that this may impact the demographic composition of colleges and the future labor pool of the affected states.