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Examine the relationship between pandemics and fertility.

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  • Population Geography

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A pandemic acts on fertility through three separable channels: mortality, which removes reproductive-age adults and their children; disruption, which suspends the marriage market, contraceptive supply and antenatal care; and expectation, which reprices the future. The first two are short-run and largely reversible; only the third could alter completed family size. Read honestly, the evidence shows…

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  • A Framework for Reading the Relationship
  • Short-Run Mechanisms That Depress Fertility
  • Short-Run Mechanisms That Raise Fertility
  • The Rebound
  • Catch-Up and Replacement After 1918-19
  • The Mixed COVID-19 Record
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion
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