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 …

approximated by older families' income - on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging … positive effect of the female wage, among older more educated women. -- fertility, relative income ; relative cohort size …

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 …

propensity to claim Social Security benefits. Somewhat stronger effects were found for older men, in a companion to this study …

Social Security benefits. In general terms, relative cohort size can be said to have generated between 25-40% of the observed … changes in these variables, with the strongest effects being on the propensity to claim Social Security benefits. Somewhat …

hypothesized to affect a number of demographic choices by young adults, including marriage, fertility and female labor force …