In recent years, considerable progress has been made in improving the data infrastructure for fertility and morality … of reconstituted families. We know little about the mortality risks of immigrants. In addition, the data infrastructure … for studying the socio-economic differences in mortality risks could be improved, thus enabling Germany to catch up with …

over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the … estimator was employed. We find that the extent to which job displacement had adverse effects on fertility depended on the …