Summary
This project plans to document recent trends in the fertility and health at birth in Hungary and analyse the effect of an economic shock - the recent economic crisis – for the general and the disadvantaged (Roma/uneducated) population. We use the registry of all live births, infant mortality and abortions, starting with the 1970’s in a regression discontinuity design. Individuals in the census of 2011 who live with their parents will be linked to their birth registry data. In order to analyse exogenous variation in job losses we will make use of municipality and year-level variation in layoff rates, computed from the individual unemployment registry data.
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