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ERC Advisory Board declines abortion-access study request, asks researchers to clarify education link
Summary
The Education Research Center advisory board declined a request to use student-level ERC data to study the education and labor-market impacts of Texas abortion restrictions, asking researchers to better connect the project to explicit education policy levers and FERPA exemptions.
The Education Research Center (ERC) advisory board declined Proposal 101, a request to use ERC student records to study how Texas abortion restrictions affected young women’s schooling and labor-market outcomes. The board voted to decline the request as submitted but invited the research team to resubmit after clarifying how the project directly serves ERC's educational mandate and complies with FERPA exemptions.
"By tracing out the full life course impacts of abortion restrictions ... we will enable policymakers to predict and potentially prevent some of the same effects," researcher Jim Flynn, an assistant professor of economics at Miami…
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