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 …

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 …

abroad and what incentives drive families to adopt them? In this paper we use the 2000 census to illuminate the landscape of ….S. born parents and foreign-born parents may have different incentives to adopt. How are these incentives reflected in the …

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

trend. Instead we argue that increases in salaried men's marginal incentives to supply hours beyond 40 accounted for the …

Current Population Survey, which allows me to observe data that is collected during different holidays in different years. The …

, 2008), and a good measure of the incentives to supply long hours of work. -- Immigrants ; hours of work …