Exposure to local violent crime and abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth in Mexico
This event introduces the SeRO project, which provides the first systematic investigation of how local crime affects sexual and reproductive health.
The SeRO project provides the first systematic investigation of how local violent crime affects sexual and reproductive health. The project builds on an innovative mixed-methods approach to study the case of Mexico, where the War on Drugs policy has dramatically increased levels of violence. This presentation features a study about how local violent crime affects abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth in the Mexican context. We combine individual-level nationally representative surveys on women’s experiences of non-live pregnancy outcomes (n = 70,836), administrative data from fetal death certificates (n = 46,227), and monthly municipality-level homicide rates based on cause-of-death registers in fixed effects models. We find a positive association between local crime and non-live birth, particularly when considering long-term exposure to violence. In turn, local violent crime is negatively associated with the number of registered fetal deaths. Together, our findings suggest the most fragile pregnancies are miscarried or terminated at higher rates during the first trimester in violence-affected municipalities, resulting in fewer stillbirths.
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Signe Svallfors (they/them), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
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