Add to ORKGThe two decades following World War II were characterized by a massive upswing in birth rates in the US and other countries – the so-called ‘baby Boom’. While the traditional explanation of the Baby Boom is that families made up for babies that were delayed due to the war, in new research Matthias Doepke suggests an alternative explanation. He argues that the Baby Boom of the 1950s was fuelled by the crowding out of younger women from the labor force by older women who had gained work experience during the war. These younger women then got married and had babies earlier, and in greater numbers
We present a model capable of explaining 200 years of declining fertility, 200 years of rising educa...
In Europe and the USA, female educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the tw...
In this paper, I argue that an important cause of the postwar baby boom in the US was the dramatic r...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply duri...
The past century has witnessed major changes in the economic choices of American women. Over the lon...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labo...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labo...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. post-war baby boom was the rise in female labour supply du...
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20t...
Abstract U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 ch...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply duri...
It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in t...
The past century has witnessed major changes in the economic choices of American women. Over the lon...
We present a model capable of explaining 200 years of declining fertility, 200 years of rising educa...
In Europe and the USA, female educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the tw...
In this paper, I argue that an important cause of the postwar baby boom in the US was the dramatic r...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply duri...
The past century has witnessed major changes in the economic choices of American women. Over the lon...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labo...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labo...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. post-war baby boom was the rise in female labour supply du...
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20t...
Abstract U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 ch...
We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply duri...
It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in t...
The past century has witnessed major changes in the economic choices of American women. Over the lon...
We present a model capable of explaining 200 years of declining fertility, 200 years of rising educa...
In Europe and the USA, female educational attainment started to increase around the middle of the tw...
In this paper, I argue that an important cause of the postwar baby boom in the US was the dramatic r...