Replication data for: Fertility and Childlessness in the United States

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Project Citation:

Baudin, Thomas, de la Croix, David, and Gobbi, Paula E. Replication data for: Fertility and Childlessness in the United States. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112885V1

Project Description

Summary: We develop a theory of fertility, distinguishing its intensive margin from its extensive margin. The deep parameters are identified using facts from the 1990 US Census: (i) fertility of mothers decreases with education; (ii) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education; (iii) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped for women and increasing for men. We estimate that 2.5 percent of women were childless because of poverty and 8.1 percent because of high opportunity cost of childrearing. Over time, historical trends in total factor productivity and in education led to a U-shaped response in childlessness rates while fertility of mothers decreased. (JEL I20, J13, J16, N31, N32)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Fertility; Structural Estimation; Childlessness; Marriage

JEL Classification:
      I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1870 – 1990

Universe: All women in the United States

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source: IPUMS US

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual women,

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