Fertility and Childlessness in the United States

Baudin, Thierry; Croix, David de la; Gobbi, Paula Eugenia

doi:10.1257/aer.20120926

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“…It may be easier to immediately react to a Reform by delaying a divorce (or not considering it), than to get married for the first time. These results are related to the few papers (Aaronson et al 2014 andBaudin et al 2015) that study childlessness. Between lifetime childlessness and changes in the number of children within marriage, the results here suggest the existence of a form of "temporary childlessness" through divorce or not remarrying after divorce or widowhood.…”

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How Women's Legal Protection from Physical Harm Affects Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

Godefroy¹

2014

SSRN Journal

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This paper estimates the impact on fertility of a 1999 reform that reduced litigants' rights for Muslim women in certain states of Nigeria. Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, I find that, where enforced, the Reform increased the yearly probability of giving birth by 0.026. This effect stems from both a shift of fertility decisions within marriage towards husbands' preferences and an increase in the probability of being married. The change in marital status alone may explain 60% of the total increase in fertility. I also find that the enforced Reform increased women's labour supply.Equal legal rights for women is a defining feature of developed countries (Doepke et al. 2012). This paper estimates the impact of a legal reform adopted in Nigeria in 1999 that reduced female litigants' rights. It makes two contributions. First, it examines the role of the justice system on demographic outcomes. It thus addresses the question of the role of the legal system on development, raised in the studies cited above, and complements studies of the effects of other women's legal rights, such as enfranchisement (Miller 2008, Kose et al. 2016. I interpret theoretically the impact of this reform (hereafter capitalized) as a reduction in a woman's utility outside marriage.

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How Women's Legal Protection from Physical Harm Affects Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

Godefroy¹

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Men's income and women's income have opposite effects. Female income has a negative impact on 26 Baudin, de la Croix, and Gobbi (2015) propose a theoretical model of childlessness compatible with this finding. 27 Significance is understood as a successful z-test.…”

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Religion and fertility: The French connection

Baudin¹

2015

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“…As women postpone births, also the proportion of them remaining childless increases (Baudin et al 2015). As shown in Fig.…”

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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women

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Bernardi

2015

IZA J Labor Econ

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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to estimate the causal effect of the Great Recession on cohorts' childlessness in the United States. We apply a difference-in-difference approach to the probability of childlessness in two pseudo-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only because the latter cohort lived some critical years of reproductive life during the Great Recession period. We then study how many childless women aged 34-36 had a child when they were 37-39, between the years 2004 and 2007 for the control group and between the years 2007 and 2010 for the treatment group. We argue that an increase of childlessness at the age 37-39 is likely to lead to an increase in permanent childlessness, since major catch-up processes are unlikely after age 40. We replicate the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey. Our findings suggest that the Great Recession has had a positive, though mild, effect on childlessness of white women at about the age of 40 in the US.JEL codes: Z0, J1, J110, J130, C21*

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Fertility and Childlessness in the United States

Cited by 108 publications

References 38 publications

How Women's Legal Protection from Physical Harm Affects Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

How Women's Legal Protection from Physical Harm Affects Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

Religion and fertility: The French connection

The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women

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