This paper reexamines the first viable and a still leading explanation for mid-twentieth
century baby booms: Richard Easterlin's relative income hypothesis. He suggested that
when incomes are higher than material aspirations ...
Hill, Matthew J.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.(2014-10-01)
We use longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine what factors
influence employer accommodation of newly disabled workers and how effective such
accommodations are in retaining workers and discouraging ...
The U.S. experienced an unprecedented increase in fertility during the
baby boom. After falling for a century and a half, fertility rates jumped
by 45 percent from 1945 to 1955, before resuming their decline in 1965.
The ...
