{"id":1543,"date":"2009-03-11T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2009-03-11T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:28:23","slug":"will-the-recession-cause-a-baby-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/03\/11\/will-the-recession-cause-a-baby-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Recession Cause a Baby Boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:WAYR1--COOWftM:http:\/\/mainerealestateblog.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/babyboom.jpg' alt='' class='left' \/>According to Kimberly Palmer in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/alpha-consumer\/2009\/03\/11\/why-the-recession- might-cause-a-baby-boom.html\">US News &amp; World Report,<\/a> research from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/\">National Bureau of Economic Research<\/a> shows that once you control for divorce and the proportion of young marriages, then an increase in the unemployment rate increases fertility, suggesting that recessions can lead to mini-baby booms.  Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">CCF<\/a> for the heads up)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Kimberly Palmer in this week&#8217;s US News &amp; World Report, research from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that once you control for divorce and the proportion of young marriages, then an increase in the unemployment rate increases fertility, suggesting that recessions can lead to mini-baby booms. Hmm&#8230; (Thanks to CCF for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,8959],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-families"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}