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House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are …

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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan; Hurst, Erik; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals … related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the recent …

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Explaining Recent Trends in the U.S. Teen Birth Rate

Levine, Phillip B.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We investigate trends in the U.S. rate of teen childbearing between 1981 and 2010, giving particular attention to the sizable decline that has occurred since 1991. Our primary focus is on establishing the role of state-level demographic changes, economic conditions, and targeted policies in...

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Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?

Levine, Phillip B.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines two aspects of teen childbearing in the United States. First, it reviews and synthesizes the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States and especially in some states. Second, it considers why and how it matters. We argue that...

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