Oral contraceptive demand is extremely inelastic.
Emily Gray Collins and Brad Hershbein report that a 200% increase in the price of oral contraceptives led to a decline in purchases of 2-4%. That’s an elasticity of –0.02.
Via Marginal Revolution.


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