This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to …

falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care …

in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … choosing self-employment also among Swedish women. The effect is strongest for women with very young children, 0-3 years of age …

We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … effect of the reform is ambiguous on both outcomes. We find that the combined reforms significantly increased both fertility … more pronounced among less-educated women. In addition, to disentangle the impact of the two reform components, we use an …

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … increase their labor supply, and ii) the effects were larger on skilled women whose labor supply was heavily constrained by … size of the household services sector and to an increase in the labor supply of women in high-earning occupations (of about …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …