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Are Children “Inferior Goods”? Are Children “Inferior Goods”?
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Explaining the Baby Boom Explaining the Baby Boom
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Improving on These Models: The Importance of the Income Effect of the Female Wage Improving on These Models: The Importance of the Income Effect of the Female Wage
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Selection of Age Groups Selection of Age Groups
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Historic Fertility Trends: Similarities with Male Relative Income Historic Fertility Trends: Similarities with Male Relative Income
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An Update of Official Fertility Statistics Using the CPS An Update of Official Fertility Statistics Using the CPS
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Results from Testing the Combined Model Results from Testing the Combined Model
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Results Using an Aggregate, National-Level Model Results Using an Aggregate, National-Level Model
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Results Using Disaggregated Data Results Using Disaggregated Data
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Speculating on What Might Have Been Speculating on What Might Have Been
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Summary Summary
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11 Relative Cohort Size and Fertility: The Boom Turns into a Bust
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Published:May 2002
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the patterns of fertility among young women in the United States. It concentrates on the “price of time” model and the “relative income” model. Young couples in the 1950s entered enthusiastically into marriage and family formation, causing the postwar baby boom. The bust occurred when those baby boomers flooded the labor market twenty years later. Both men and women in the African American community enjoyed a pronounced economic recovery after 1985. At the same time, African American women's fertility rose more sharply than white women's. Data show a significant positive effect of young men's income on the fertility of women in their first five years out of school, and a significant negative effect of parental income with an estimated positive effect of the female wage. Furthermore, a positive effect of women's wages on fertility emerges at all ages.
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