by two key features of leave policies: flexibility in leave duration and financial incentives. To disentangle their … impact, we exploit recent changes to the Austrian parental leave system, which initially offered flat monthly benefits for 36 …-dependent benefits, increasing net income replacement rates to 80 percent. Using a regression discontinuity design based on eligibility …

fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings … selection into fertility show that common intuitions regarding parallel trend assumptions may be misleading, and that pre …

outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …

feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal …

effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …