🚨🚨🚨WP paper alert🚨🚨🚨 "Conceiving Naturally After IVF: the effect of an ART conception on obstetric outcomes"---a thread. Results preview: we find that assisted reproduction technology has a precisely null effect on preterm birth, spontaneous preterm birth, birth weight and scores (1 & 5). 1/n

#EconSky Suprisingly, it has a small negative effect on the probability of a caesarean section and of an induction of labour. IVF and other assisted reproduction methods are responsible for an increasing share of births. However, identifying the effects of such methods on 2/n