We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county … Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik instrument. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate causes a …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …