grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence …

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … complementary data sets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …