No Socio-economic Differences in MAR Treatment Success: Evidence from Careggi Hospital, Italy

Marco Cozzani , University of Florence
Maria Elisabetta Coccia, University of Florence
Emilia Giusti, University of Florence
Sara Landini, University of Florence
Valentina Tocchioni, Università di Firenze
Daniele Vignoli, University of Florence

Socio-economic differences in the proportion of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) births are observed across many high-income countries. Yet, it is unclear which underlying factors may explain this phenomenon. In this study, we focus on a possible mechanism of disparities in the proportion of MAR births, and ask whether there are socio-economic disparities in the probability of a successful MAR treatment leading to a birth. We focus on novel data from Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy, which comprise more than 4,500 treatments between 2016 and 2021. We estimate baseline and adjusted linear probability models. Our preliminary results do not point to any socio-economic difference in the probability of a successful MAR treatment in Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy, a context with subsidized access to treatment. This finding may suggest that in settings with subsided access to treatments, preferences for children or other factors rather than differences in treatments success may be the underlying causes of existing disparities in the proportion of MAR births.

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 Presented in Session 45. Assisted Reproduction