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Submission for the Record, Institute for Women’s Policy Research Senate Committee on the Budget Hearing: “No Rights to Speak of: The Economic Harms of Restricting Reproductive Freedom” February 28, 2024 The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is grateful to Chairman Whitehouse and Ranking Member Grassley, as well as to the members of the United States Senate Committee on the Budget, for y. [...] To this end, IWPR has conducted extensive research on the economic impacts of restrictions on reproductive health care, and we welcome the opportunity to share this research with the committee. [...] A recent IWPR review of research on the causal relationship between access to contraception and abortion and individual economic outcomes in the United States highlighted a number of ways that reproductive rights are linked to economic well-being.ii These include: • Contracepon and aboron posively impact women’s high school graduaon rates, educaonal atainment, occupaon, earnings, and mortality. [...] The study found that increased access to abortion and contraception increases labor force participation, college graduation, contraceptive use, and high school graduation, while abortion restrictions lead to an increase in early births and a decrease in high school graduation rates.viii Similarly, a 2021 study that used a novel model and data from the National Survey of Family Growth to estimate t. [...] In particular, the study found that abortion access increased the probability of completing college by 72 percent for women who had pregnancies before the age of 24 and that missing out on a college degree resulted in a loss of lifetime earnings of $1.286 million.