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Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks : Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition

Aizer, Anna; Grafton, Gabrielle; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the impact of Federal alcohol Prohibition in 1919 on workers in the alcohol industry and their families using newly linked census records that allow us to follow spouses, sons and daughters. Immediately after Prohibition, men previously working in alcohol-related industries were less...

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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...

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Automation : Theory, Evidence, and Outlook

Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and productivity. I first introduce the task model and explain why this framework offers a compelling way to think about recent labor market trends and the effects of automation technologies....

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The Wage Curve After the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some...

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Working from Home Around the World

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers who finished primary school in 27 countries as of mid 2021 and early 2022. Our cross-country comparisons control for age, gender, education, and industry and treat the U.S....

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Ten Facts about Son Preference in India

Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

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Babies and the Macroeconomy

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Fertility levels have greatly decreased in virtually every nation in the world, but the timing of the decline has … differed even among developed countries. In Europe, Asia, and North America, total fertility rates of some nations dipped below … the magic replacement figure of 2.1 as early as the 1970s. But in other nations, fertility rates remained substantial …

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A New Measure of Surviving Children that Sheds Light on Long-term Trends in Fertility

Malani, Anup; Jacob, Ari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The world has experienced a dramatic decline in total fertility rate (TFR) since the Industrial Revolution. Yet the …. We propose a new measure of the number of surviving children per female, which we call the effective fertility rate (EFR … a substantial portion of fertility decline merely compensated for higher survival rates. Focusing on the change in labor …

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