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The Pandemic ‘Baby Bust’ and Rebound

Title (Dublin Core)

The Pandemic ‘Baby Bust’ and Rebound

Description (Dublin Core)

This is a news story from National Academics by Sara Frueh. It goes over the data of births throughout the pandemic. Melissa Kearney, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, says that there was this idea at the beginning of the pandemic that it would lead to a baby boom with people being forced to stay home, but it did not.

She adds that closed or limited facilities at the height of the pandemic maybe impacted some people. To support the claim, she brings up the pandemic from 1918-1919 and how that also led to decreased birth rates.

An analysis of the data from Kearney states there were 62,000 fewer conceptions in the years from 2020-2021. There was a small increase in conception rates in the summer of 2020, but fell into decline again soon afterwards.

The overall trend that Kearney sees with the birth and conception rates is that is has been a steady decline after COVID.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 17, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Sara Frueh

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2022/06/the-pandemic-baby-bust-and-rebound
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625033658/https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2022/06/the-pandemic-baby-bust-and-rebound

Source (Dublin Core)

National Academics

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage
English Social Issues

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

University of Maryland
decline
National Academies’ Societal Experts Action Network
COVID baby bust
policymaking
immigration

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

conception
birth rate
baby
trend
data

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/18/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/24/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/17/2022

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