We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming
from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic …

BACKGROUND This study further develops Goldstein et al.'s (2013) analysis of the fertility
response to the Great Recession in western economies. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this …

The Great Recession produced the highest rates of unemployment and foreclosure in the
United States since the Great Depression. In this article the author examines the …

Purpose The decline in US adolescent fertility has accelerated since 2007. Modeling fertility
change using behavioral data can inform adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts. Methods …

Rationale Although several systematic reviews have addressed the antecedents and
consequences of adolescent motherhood, none have examined adolescent fatherhood …

US Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2011: National Trends by Age, Race and
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In this paper, I present estimates of the effect of local labor demand shocks on birth rates. To
identify exogenous variation in male and female labor demand, I create indices that exploit …

Many previous studies have documented the procyclicality of fertility to business cycles or
labour market indicators in Western countries. However, part of the recent fertility decline …

Economic life for most American households is quite dynamic. Such income instability is an
understudied aspect of households' economic contexts that may have distinct consequences …

Many papers show that aggregate fertility is pro-cyclical over the business cycle. Using data
on more than 100 million births from 1988 to 2014, we show that for recent recessions in the …