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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and … economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second … the fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s to the earlier 20th century fertility decline, especially the 1920s and 1930s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969391
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Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
that demonstrates both policies' effects on fertility rates, I find suggestive evidence that individuals' access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951258
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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251508
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"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830499
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The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages
Bailey, Martha J.; Hershbein, Brad; Miller, Amalia R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Decades of research on the U.S. gender gap in wages describes its correlates, but little is known about why women changed their career paths in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper explores the role of "the Pill" in altering women's human capital investments and its ultimate implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188543