Historically, there is clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labour supply and fertility. However …, the relationship across countries is now positive. Countries like Germany and Italy, with the lowest fertility, also have … female labour supply and higher fertility …

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

.S. data and validating it with quasi-experimental evidence, I find that raising aggregate fertility to the replacement level …. The key to this result is that the marginal cost of child quality rises with fertility, and fertility effects of the … rewards, in-kind benefits are less cost-effective in raising fertility but have other advantages: subsidized childcare …

This paper reviews empirical studies that have examined the causal determinants of fertility behaviour. In particular …

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model …'s benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well as the differential fertility pattern of educational groups in …