Estimating Fertility Responses to Expectations: Evidence From the 1958 British Cohort.
The aim of this work is to explore the relationship between unemployment and fertility. The hypothesis we investigate is that unemployment affects fertility decisions by in‡uencing individual’s expectations of future job opportunities and wage levels. A spell of unemployment may induce women to brin...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2001
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