Indonesia, are effective in advising young women to delay their first birth and also influence the decision on post … midwife program affects the age at first birth and the number of school years of women. My findings suggest that women who … planning services provided by midwifes can generate large socioeconomic benefits by allowing young women to postpone their …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … include a higher propensity to adopt among infertile adults, relatives, women with high earnings potential, and celebrities. …

participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and …Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … discontinuities following childbirth. Using new longitudinal datasets that cover the work and family life of women in the Federal …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are …

German reunification to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … women, especially in Western Germany and most pronounced for higher educated females between age 25 and 40. This strong …

(SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …

western world. Therefore, freed from social sanctions, single motherhood has become an additional family-choice alternative … for women, along with marriage and childlessness. Yet, the institutions that infl uence women’s decisions diff er across … fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …