The University of Barcelona participated in a study that uses an unexpected change of government in Spain—the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) defeated the PP, against the odds, in the March 2004 general election—to examine whether changes in economic expectations affected births, abortions and marriages.
How economic expectations and political polarization influence fertility rates and the number of marriages
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