Tag: long-term fertility
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The brief’s key findings are: The U.S. fertility rate has fallen sharply since the Great Recession. The question is whether it’s a lingering effect of the downturn or a more permanent drop. A review of different measures of fertility suggests a mixed picture. But a state-level analysis shows that while fertility typically rises in expansions, in t…