This article reviews the literature on aspirations in economics, with a particular focus on
socially determined aspirations. The core theory builds on two fundamental principles:(a) …

This paper provides a narrative review of the literature that addresses the connection
between women's reproductive health and women's economic activity. Women's …

This paper documents a set of facts about the dramatic decline in birth rates in the United
States between 2007 and 2020 and explores possible explanations. The overall reduction in …

We study how the recent housing boom and bust affected college enrollment during the
2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, which improved labor market …

We estimate the short-and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a developing
country, Chile, based on an event-study approach around the birth of the first child. We find …

We investigate whether an increase in the potential earnings of men leads to an increase in
marriage and a reduction in nonmarital births by exploiting the positive economic shock …

This project investigates how changes in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)-level house
prices affect household fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost …

We use NLSY97 data to examine how home price variation affects the quality of
postsecondary schools students attend. We find a 10,000increaseinhousingwealthincreasesthelikeli …

We document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on births in the USA. First, using Vital
Statistics birth data on the universe of US births, we show that the US pandemic initially was …

In this paper, I present estimates of the effect of local labor demand shocks on birth rates. To
identify exogenous variation in male and female labor demand, I create indices that exploit …