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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …
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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure
Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on US Census data, the Current Population Survey, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210106
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Tweet sixteen and pregnant : missing links in the causal chain from reality TV to fertility
Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982508
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Investigating recent trends in the U.S. teen birth rate
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - In: Journal of health economics 41 (2015), pp. 15-29
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Is there an effect of incremental welfare benefits on fertility behavior? : A look at the family cap
Kearney, Melissa Schettini - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 39 (2004) 2, pp. 295-325
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Subsidized contraception, fertility, and sexual behavior
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - In: The review of economics and statistics 91 (2009) 1, pp. 137-151
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Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high and why does it matter?
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572536
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Explaining recent trends in the US teen birth rate
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572541
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Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high and why does it matter?
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 26 (2012) 2, pp. 141-166
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667784
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Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high and why does it matter?
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009528965