Leveraging data from the U.S Add Health project, Eric Kim and colleagues explore how mood during adolescence influences health and well-being outcomes in adulthood.
Baby Bust, Not Boom, Likely After COVID-19 Pandemic
On 12/30/20 at 12:32 PM EST
Economic uncertainty created by the COVID19 pandemic is likely to lead to a baby bust next year, two researchers believe. They report that the number of U.S. births in 2021 could decline by 300,000 to 500,000. We base this expectation on lessons drawn from economic studies of fertility behavior, along with data presented here from the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and the 1918 Spanish Flu, Melissa Kearney, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, and Philip Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, said in a research report.