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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 …

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Is there really a child penalty in the long run? : new evidence from IVF treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2024

Newly matched data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments are used to estimate the long-run consequences of children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of...

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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 …

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Schooling, family background, and adoption : is it nature or is it nurture?

Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...

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Schooling, family background, and adoption : does family income matter?

Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...

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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 …

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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...

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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations

Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002

The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...

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