Understanding the link between the economy and teenage sexual behavior and fertility outcomes

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Arkes, Jeremy
Klerman, Jacob Alex
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Fertility
Sexual behavior
Contraception
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2006
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We use individual-level data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and state unemployment rates to examine how the economy affects fertility and its proximate determinants for several groups based on gender, age (15–17 and 18–20 groups), and race/ethnicity.We find that, for 15- to 17-year-old females, several behaviors leading to pregnancies and pregnancies themselves are higher when the unemployment rate is higher, which is consistent with the counter-cyclical fertility patterns for this group. For 18- to 20-year-old males, the results suggested counter-cyclical patterns of fertility behaviors/outcomes for whites, but pro-cyclical patterns for blacks.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-007-0172-5
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/43647
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Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
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This research was funded by grant R03HD47407 from the National Institute on Child and Health Development.
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Journal of Popul Econ, 2009, Volume 22, pp. 517-536
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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