Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by … restrictions on eligibility for non-citizens, a number of states allowed previously eligible women to continue to receive benefits … similar to those before 1996, whereas others imposed the new Federal cutbacks. Using data from the Current Population Survey …

undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …

We examine the fertility impact of a change in immigration policy granting temporary legal status to undocumented … 2011 Royal Decree increased fertility among individuals potentially affected by the reform by approximately 32 percent. …

to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020 … reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which …

affecting different segments of the population. We show that the differential timing of smoking reductions among the rich and …