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dc.contributor.authorLappegård, Trude
dc.contributor.authorKornstad, Tom
dc.contributor.authorDommermuth, Lars
dc.contributor.authorKristensen, Axel Peter
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-12T09:00:51Z
dc.date.available2022-05-12T09:00:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.identifier.issn1892-753X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2995390
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in Norway, but women’s fertility response to the pandemic may differ depending on their life situation. We use the first lockdown on March 12, 2020 as a marker of the pandemic and apply a regression discontinuity design to compare births of women that were conceived before the pandemic started with those conceived during the first eight months of the pandemic. The positive effect on women’s fertility in Norway was mainly driven by women in life phases that have generally high fertility rates (women aged 28–35 years and women who already have children). These groups are likely to be in an economic and socially secure and stable situation in which the restrictions due to the pandemic had limited influence. Besides two exceptions, we do not find differences in the effect of the pandemic on childbearing by women’s work situation. This is most likely related to the strong welfare state and the generous additional pandemic-related measures taken by the Norwegian government.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherStatistisk sentralbyråen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscussion Paper;No. 979
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectFertilityen_US
dc.subjectDemographyen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectRegression discontinuity designen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding the positive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s fertility in Norwayen_US
dc.typeWorking paperen_US
dc.source.pagenumber28en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges Forskningsråd: 300870en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges Forskningsråd: 2876349en_US


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