Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295950 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16927
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In the Netherlands, an immediate baby boom followed the end of WWII and the baby bust of the 1930s. I propose a novel application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation did not make up for the "missed" births that did not occur prior to the war, as fertility would have been 9.4% higher in absence of WWII.
Subjects: 
lifecycle fertility
bunching
World War II
The Netherlands
JEL: 
J11
J13
J18
N34
N44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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