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 …

Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for …

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

We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects … future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the senior year of high school have fallen from 8.3 percent for the …