Archive: COVID-MarketWatch blogs
Rising asset markets helped the rich and government payments let the poor break even. 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, whic…
Despite an uptick in births during 2021, women in their 20s want even fewer children than before the pandemic. 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…
