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This paper documents a set of facts about the dramatic decline in birth rates in the United States between 2007 and 2020 and explores possible explanations. The overall reduction in the birth rate reflects declines across many groups of women, including women who differ by race and ethnicity,...
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This paper documents how the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. affected birth rates. We review the economics of fertility …
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behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …
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fertility at that time. But this decline may have either represented a delay in births from a point where they were have … represented a permanent reduction in fertility. We combine data from the 1970 U.S. Census and microdata from 1968 to 1999 Vital … Statistics records to calculate lifetime fertility of women in the 1930s through 1960s birth cohorts. We examine whether those …
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1985 to 1996 period at each stage of the fertility decision tree, including sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy …
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This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
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