Emergence Of Countercyclical Us Fertility
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The Emergence of Countercyclical U.S. Fertility
Author | : William P. Butz |
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Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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"Two conclusions can be drawn from this study. First, economic models of fertility behavior that emphasize the distinctions between income and price effects - what we have called male income and female wage effects - are successful in explaining not only important features of cross-sectional variations but also aggregate movements of U.S. fertility over time. Second, the model we propose successfully predicts both procyclical and countercyclical variations in fertility in a unified framework, across age groups, and over a long time span." : - p. 326.
The Emergence of Countercyclical U.S. Fertility
Author | : William P. Butz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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Some New Perspectives on the Issue of Countercyclical, U.S. Fertility
Author | : Diane Judith Macunovich |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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The Emergence of Procyclical Fertility
Author | : Sena Coskun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more likely to work in relatively stable and countercyclical industries whereas men tend to work in volatile and procyclical industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44% of the emergence of procyclical fertility. Our counterfactual analysis shows that in a world in which men become nurses and women become construction workers, we would observe "countercyclical fertility" but at the expense of lower human capital accumulation as families lean in more towards quantity in the quality-quantity trade-off.