“…A few papers report a relationship between partisanship and spending on consumer goods (Benhabib and Spiegel, 2019, Gerber and Huber, 2009, Gillitzer and Prasad, 2018, but others have challenged this link (McGrath, 2017, Mian et al, 2021. Further, a group of papers have linked partisanship with financial outcomes, such as tax evasion, stock market trading, corporate credit, and retirement investing (Cookson et al, 2020, Cullen et al, 2021, Dagostino et al, 2020, Kempf and Tsoutsoura, 2020, Meeuwis et al, 2021 Across many nations, growing political polarization and declining fertility are two fundamental challenges facing society. We estimate e↵ects at the intersection of these two forces.…”