Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Non-Marital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Melissa S. Kearney is a Professor in the Department of Economics
at the University of Maryland. She is also a Research Associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a
non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings; a scholar affiliate and
member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for
Economic Opportunities (LEO); and a scholar affiliate of the MIT
Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and co-chair of the J-PAL
cities and states initiative.