This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … decrease in childlessness and an increase in the average number of children per woman. Our findings are robust to a number of …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …