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female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
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The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …
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children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …
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While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …
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to poorer households and improving work incentives, 2) the trade-off between improving work incentives for first and for … second earners in couples, 3) the trade-off between improving work incentives for those facing strong and weak incentives in … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …
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crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered incentives in the workplace tend to increase output, but it is unknown … also extends to high-powered incentives, in a real work setting with paid workers. There is individual heterogeneity …
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agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …
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The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …
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Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
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