We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …

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 …

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-towork behavior. We exploit … children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy which … when the child became 18 months old brought about no change in fertility behavior, but a labor supply effect that is …

Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of …