Republican-leaning counties saw a significant baby bump following the 2016 election of President Donald Trump compared to Democrat-leaning counties, a study from UC San Diego revealed Wednesday.
The study found that the difference in the first two years of the Trump presidency amounted to between 1% and 2% of the national birth rate.
That's a significant partisan shift according to the UCSD authors, Gordon Dahl, professor of economics in the Department of Economics/School of Social Sciences and William Mullins, assistant professor of finance at the Rady School of Management.
"The size of the change is equivalent to changes in birth rates that occur after economic shocks or in response to policies designed to affect birth rates," Dahl said. "For example, when unemployment drops by 1%, it increases national fertility by 1 to 2%, and when other countries provide a $1,000 subsidy to mothers for having a child, fertility rates rise by about 2%."
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