Publications

Authors:

Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro; Spolverini, Gaia

Title:

Fertility and family type in the United States: a historical analysis

Year:

2024

Type of item:

Rapporti di ricerca di altri Atenei

Tipologia ANVUR:

Altro

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Keyword:

economic growth; intergenerational coresidence; human capital

Short description of contents:

We provide a historical decomposition of fertility in the United States by family type. We find that intergenerational coresidence was systematically associated with lower fertility than nuclear families, with the dierence shrinking over time. This pattern is robust to controlling for several demographic and socioeconomic confounders. We build a simple, analytical model and show that a theory featuring both endogenous fertility and endogenous coresidence can rationalise the observed cross-family fertility dierence. Simulations from a calibrated dynamic general equilibrium version of the model show that the model has the right qualitative behaviour, and is quantitatively meaningful. Using individual data, we discuss (and dismiss) several potential alternative explanations.

Web page:

https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/lidam/ires/ires-discussion-papers.html

Product ID:

140074

Handle IRIS:

11562/1128608

Last Modified:

June 14, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro; Spolverini, Gaia, Fertility and family type in the United States: a historical analysis, IRES (UCLouvain), N° , 2024

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