Joseph Potter's interests lie in the areas of reproductive health, population and development, and demographic estimation. Since the Fall of 2011, he has been leading a project to evaluate the impact of legislation affecting reproductive health enacted during the 2011 Texas Legislative Session. Provisions in the state budget bill cut support for family planning by two-thirds, Finally, changes were also made in access to abortion in 2011, by way of a sonogram bill, and in 2013 by an omnibus bill of additional restrictions. This three year project--The Texas Policy Evaluation Project or Tx-PEP--involves collaborators at Ibis Reproductive Health, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and focuses especially on the health of low-income and minority women in Texas.
“Unmet Demand for Highly Effective Postpartum Contraception in Texas,” Contraception 90:
488-495, 2014 (with Kristine Hopkins, Abigail R. A. Aiken, Celia Hubert Lopez, Amanda J.
Stevenson, Kari White, Daniel Grossman).
“Bayes plus Brass: A New Procedure for Estimating Total Fertility in a Large Set of Small Areas from Sparse Census Data,” Population Studies 67(3): 255-273, 2013 (with Carl P. Schmertmann, Suzana Cavenaghi, and Renato M. Assunção).
“The Impact of Outmigration of Men on Fertility and Marriage in the Migrant-Sending States of Mexico, 1995–2000,” Population Studies 67(1): 83-95, 2013 (with Kari White).
“Hospital Variation in Postpartum Tubal Sterilization Rates in California and Texas,” Obstetrics and Gynecology 121(1): 152-158, 2013 (with Amanda J. Stevenson, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, and Daniel Grossman).
“Cutting Family Planning in Texas,” New England Journal of Medicine 367(13): 1179-81, 2012 (with Kari White, Daniel Grossman, and Kristine Hopkins).
Principal Investigator – Evaluating the Impact of Reproductive Health Legislation Enacted by the
82nd and 83rd Texas Legislatures, Anonymous Foundation, 2011-2016.