Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the … short and medium term, up to five years after displacement. Our analysis is based on rich administrative data from Germany … estimator was employed. We find that the extent to which job displacement had adverse effects on fertility depended on the …