Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect … over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the … estimator was employed. We find that the extent to which job displacement had adverse effects on fertility depended on the …