Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263483 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15267
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate that higher maximum benefit levels mitigate the effects of layoffs. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women's layoffs.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance
job loss
marriage
divorce
fertility
gender
family
JEL: 
J12
J13
J16
J65
H53
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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