Reichman, NancyFeiner, Amelia R.2025-07-242025-07-242025-04-08https://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01cv43p125qBetween 1980 and 2000, thirteen US states enacted policies mandating insurance coverage for infertility treatments, generating plausibly exogenous variation in access to reproductive technologies. Employing a series of differences-in-differences regressions that exploit variation in mandates across states and years, I estimate the causal effect of increased access to infertility treatments on female labor market outcomes. I extend this analysis with a triple-difference model, examining differential labor trends across age cohorts. The results reveal a consistent pattern of reduced labor force participation in the years following mandate implementation, relative to women in untreated states. Although wage income effects are less robust, there is a general upward trend in income, particularly in states with more comprehensive legislation. These findings suggest that expanded access to infertility treatments has meaningful consequences for women’s labor market behavior.en-USPrinceton University Senior Theses