{"title":"Testing fertility rate convergence in the United States","authors":"Liam Keck , Won Sung , Junsoo Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112243","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global decline in fertility rates has increasingly captured the attention of policymakers and economists. Previous studies have examined global fertility convergence. While heterogeneous transition paths across regions within a country are observable, the literature has largely overlooked this aspect. This paper addresses whether fertility rates tend to converge within the United States, offering a focused examination of this issue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"248 ","pages":"Article 112243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176525000801","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The global decline in fertility rates has increasingly captured the attention of policymakers and economists. Previous studies have examined global fertility convergence. While heterogeneous transition paths across regions within a country are observable, the literature has largely overlooked this aspect. This paper addresses whether fertility rates tend to converge within the United States, offering a focused examination of this issue.
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Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.