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100 dollar bills, COVID masks and latex gloves on a clothes line

We just finished a study that looks at how the pandemic affected the finances of vulnerable households as well as those with more resources, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).  The PSID is a panel survey, which allows us to follow the same households over time, that includes in-depth information on…

One woman in a waiting room

Birthrates in the United States have been declining since the Great Recession, and many expected that the onset of COVID-19 might accelerate this decline. And, indeed, birthrates early in the pandemic did drop substantially. However, when the economy swiftly recovered from COVID, birthrates in 2021 went up for the first time in several years (s…