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More than an urban legend : the short and long run effects of unplanned fertility shocks
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Fetzer, Thiemo, Pardo, Oliver and Shanghavi, Amar (2018) More than an urban legend : the short and long run effects of unplanned fertility shocks. Journal of Population Economics, 31 (4). pp. 1125-1176. doi:10.1007/s00148-017-0685-5 ISSN 0933-1433.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0685-5
Abstract
This paper examines the short- and long-run effects of a quasi-exogenous variation in fertility behavior due to a yearlong period of power rationing in Colombia in 1992. We show that power shortages caused a mini baby boom and that the increase in fertility was unplanned and persistent: the time in between births was reduced and overall lifetime fertility increased. We also present evidence suggesting that women who had a baby due to the outage found themselves in worse socioeconomic conditions 12 years later.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fertility, Human -- Social aspects -- Colombia, Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- Colombia, Fertility, Unwanted pregnancy -- Colombia, Unwanted pregnancy -- Social aspects -- Colombia, Teenage mothers --Colombia -- Longitudinal studies | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Population Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Verlag | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0933-1433 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1125-1176 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00148-017-0685-5 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 February 2018 |
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