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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline

Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second Demographic Transition." The empirical case for a Second...

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications

Stevenson, Betsey; Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...

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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing

Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic variation in the language of "Comstock" statutes,...

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Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension

Salisbury, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect this had on the rate of remarriage among these...

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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective …-age. To control for selective migration, we instrument the migration decision using inflows of immigrants to the US during … puberty and early adulthood. We find that migration causes men to marry up and women to marry down, but self-selection into …

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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...

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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic co-authorship within the US

Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....

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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development

Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and its aggregate implications. Before 1960, children from larger families had richer parents and obtained more education. By century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently,...

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun; Couch, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation--German reunification-- abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with...

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