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 …

The historical fertility transition is the process by which much of Europe and North America went from high to low … fertility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This transformation is central to recent accounts of long …-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many as eight children each, and the elasticity of fertility with …