explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … decrease the amount of time people spend in childcare at home. I test this using household data for a set of European countries …

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an …

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

administered. Childcare provision is available, but quality and access is uneven. Participants had mixed views as to the efficacy … unpredictability of the labour market, the dominance of a ‘business case’ rationale, their lack of confidence in childcare provision …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, we analyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality …

find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We …

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i …-time) is a barrier for family formation. The study is done for a sample of both men and women. We analyse two groups, Cohort …