In the Wake of the Great Recession: Economic Uncertainty, Communication, and Biological Stress Responses in Families

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Afifi ◽  
Sharde Davis ◽  
Anne F. Merrill ◽  
Samantha Coveleski ◽  
Amanda Denes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Biological Stress

scholarly journals Fertility Intentions in Times of Rising Economic Uncertainty: Evidence from Italy from a Gender Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Novelli ◽  
Alberto Cazzola ◽  
Aurora Angeli ◽  
Lucia Pasquini
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Italian Women ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis study analyses the socio-economic determinants of the short-term fertility plans of Italian women and men living as couples, before and shortly after the onset of the 2007/2008 Great Recession, which may have affected their reproductive plans through a climate of rising economic uncertainty. Using multilevel models, we investigate how fertility intentions are related to the individual characteristics of the respondents and their partners as well as to changes in the economic context. The findings confirm that the Great Recession modified the determinants of short-term fertility intentions differently for women and men. Among the most relevant issues, we outline the importance of couples’ working conditions and the contextual labour market indicators.

The United States of wealth

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-63
Author(s):  
Chenthuran Jayachandiran ◽  
Kathryn E. Harrison ◽  
Tamara D. Afifi ◽  
Sharde M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
The United States ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Family Narratives

During the Great Recession, discourses of what constituted prosperity flooded the global landscape. The concept of prosperity became a prominent master narrative that dictated the ways families operated and made decisions. The goal of this study was to examine how 82 married couples experiencing economic uncertainty in California (re)negotiated their family narratives of wealth and prosperity in the wake of the Great Recession. The findings revealed that few, if any, couples were able to communicatively re-define prosperity in a way that wholly resisted or rejected the master narrative of material wealth. The narratives demonstrated how this master narrative held many of these families captive by restricting their ability to reconstitute their understanding of prosperity in productive ways even when the taken-for-granted meaning of prosperity-as-wealth was challenged during the Great Recession. The families who successfully re-defined prosperity depended on other dominant discourses such as health, faith, family quality and relationships to refuse or repudiate the master narrative of wealth as prosperity. The findings support Lindemann-Nelson’s (2001) argument that successfully overcoming a master narrative often requires a patchwork of resistance strategies that permeate daily discourse, before they begin to chip away at the larger dominant discourse.

scholarly journals Transition to first birth during the Great Recession: the case of Greece

Genus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charalampos Dantis ◽  
Ester Lucia Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
First Child ◽  
Before And After

Abstract In this study, we examine the effects of the economic uncertainty of partners on the transition to first birth in Greece before and after the onset of the recent economic crisis. After selecting a sample of childless couples, we applied a random effects model to EU-SILC data for the period 2005–2013. Few studies have focused on the association between economic uncertainty and fertility in Greece considering characteristics of both partners. Even fewer studies have examined panel data in the context of the recent crisis. Our findings show that Greek couples in which both partners are employed, have a high income, or are highly educated are in a more favourable position to have a first child. During the Greek Great Recession, corresponding in our study to the period 2010–2013, the odds of having a first child decreased to half the odds in the 2005–2009 period. The recession period also modified the effect of couples’ characteristics on first childbearing. During the economic crisis, male breadwinner couples were particularly penalized in their transition to have a first child. Surprisingly, couples with at least one temporary worker, usually the woman, were encouraged to have their first child. Implications in terms of gender and social inequality are discussed in the concluding section, and selection processes at play are also discussed. Keywords Fertility, Economic uncertainty, Economic recession, Greece

scholarly journals Fluctuations in uncertainty

2016 ◽  
pp. 30-55
Author(s):  
N. Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Recent Growth

In this essay, the author addresses four questions about uncertainty. First, what are some facts and patterns about economic uncertainty? Both macro and micro uncertainty appear to rise sharply in recessions and fall in booms. Uncertainty also varies heavily across countries - developing countries appear to have about one-third more macro uncertainty than developed countries. Second, why does uncertainty vary during business cycles? Third, do fluctuations in uncertainty affect behavior? Fourth, has higher uncertainty worsened the Great Recession and slowed the recovery? Much of this discussion is based on research on uncertainty from the last five years, reflecting the recent growth of the literature.

scholarly journals Fluctuations in Uncertainty

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Broad Concept

Uncertainty is an amorphous concept. It reflects uncertainty in the minds of consumers, managers, and policymakers about possible futures. It is also a broad concept, including uncertainty over the path of macro phenomena like GDP growth, micro phenomena like the growth rate of firms, and noneconomic events like war and climate change. In this essay, I address four questions about uncertainty. First, what are some facts and patterns about economic uncertainty? Both macro and micro uncertainty appear to rise sharply in recessions and fall in booms. Uncertainty also varies heavily across countries—developing countries appear to have about one-third more macro uncertainty than developed countries. Second, why does uncertainty vary during business cycles? Third, do fluctuations in uncertainty affect behavior? Fourth, has higher uncertainty worsened the Great Recession and slowed the recovery? Much of this discussion is based on research on uncertainty from the last five years, reflecting the recent growth of the literature.

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