Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015
unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By … using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …, mothers “just” affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third …