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Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317653
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The COVID-19 baby bump : the unexpected increase in U.S. fertility rates in response to the pandemic
Bailey, Martha J.; Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449230
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Mortality inequality : the good news from a county-level approach
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2016
affecting different segments of the population. We show that the differential timing of smoking reductions among the rich and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458800
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Violence while in utero : the impact of assaults during pregnancy on birth outcomes
Currie, Janet M.; Mueller-Smith, Michael; … - 2018
Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881325
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The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359291
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796399
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Cyclical variation in labor hours and productivity using the ATUS
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay … - 2012
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679523