There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

that the effect grows larger as the child grows older and as the family loses eligibility for child benefits. Finally, we …

this is the case, how tax differences affect the growth rates of population and human capital will depend on the relative …

population growth rates. Corroborative evidence is found for the theoretical results on the convergence/divergence in long …-term population, per capita and total income growth rates obtained in Razin and Yuen (1992). In particular, the data (and casual … observation) show: (1) that population growth and per capita income growth are negatively correlated across countries; (2) that …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …