An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic … configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of child-parent proximity is vitally important, as it impacts on issues …. However, when we use multiple births and sibship sex composition as instruments for family size, we do not find any evidence …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform …