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Are more children being born during economic recessions? The example of the United States of America
 Mihalko, Jan ; Stroukal, Dominik (advisor) ; Kovanda, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis focuses on the issue of individuals' preferences regarding the acquisition of a child during the business cycle expressed in unemployment rates for men and women. Fixed effects model involving robust estimates of standard deviations on a panel dataset tested for the period 1980-2012 confirmed the significance of the relationship between sex-specific unemployment rates and fertility rate of the United States of America. The results of the analysis show a negative relationship documenting pro-cyclical nature of the fertility. There is a less willingness of couples to conceive a child with the growth in unemployment. It does not show the prevalence of substitution effect of reducing opprtunity costs for women during the recession over the effect of reduction in income. Among other statistically significant variables that affect fertility belong the degree of attainment of university education, the poverty rate and abortion rate.
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How the business cycle affects the fertility rate of the Czech and the Slovak Republik?
 Mihalko, Jan ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee)
The thesis focuses on fertility development of the Czech and the Slovak Republic during the business cycle expressed in terms of the unemployment rate. The linear regression analysis conducted with the specific panel data of the Czech and the Slovak Republic for the period from 1993 to 2010 proved insignificance of tested relationship. The growth of male unemployment rate by 1 % is associated with 0,005% increase in fertility. Increase in female unemployment rate by 1 % results in an increase in fertility by 0,017%. As can be seen from these results, the fertility of the Czech and the Slovak Republic is counter-cyclical to the economic cycle, which means that the substitution effect decrease in opportunity cost of women during a recession prevails over effects of reduced income. With an increase in both, male and female unemployment increases willingness of individuals to conceive children. Significant variables within this analysis include the marriage rate and intensity of housing, which generally raise the fertility of the Czech and the Slovak Republic in which more children being born in economic crises.
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