increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify … the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …

relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … interact and how women's 'autonomy' is negotiated to mitigate adverse birth outcomes such as miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual … importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed … endogeneity of the unemployment rate which we control for by using a shift-share instrumental variable approach …

In this paper we assess whether changes in labor market decisions upon motherhood lead to potential inefficient … that motherhood effects go beyond the well studied effects of labor market participation decisions: the arrival of the … labor market responses to motherhood are larger in societies with more conservative social-norms or with weak policies …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of …

Although from a life course perspective women’s retirement timing can be expected to be related to family events …, this study examines retirement intentions and behavior in relation to past and proximal preretirement family experiences …. The results show that women who postponed childbearing and still have children living at home during preretirement years …