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Title: Booms, Busts, and Fertility Testing the Becker Model Using Gender-Specific Labor Demand

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: 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 cross- sectional variation in industry composition, changes in gender- education composition within industries, and growth in national industry employment. Consistent with economic theory, I fi nd that improvements in mens labor market conditions are associated with increases in fertility while improvements in womens labor market conditions have smaller negative effects. I separately find that increases in unemployment rates are associated with small decreases in birth rates at the state level.

Url: http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/51/1/1.abstract

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Authors: Schaller, Jessamyn

Periodical (Full): Journal of Human Resources

Issue: 1

Volume: 51

Pages: 1-29

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Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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