direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. -- Population ; fertility ; incentives ; benefits …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

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 …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex …-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing … with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …

work conditions on worker health; (iii) the impact of differential employer incentives to reintegrate ill workers; and (iv …) the differential impact of labor market prospects on the decision to apply for DI benefits. We find that selection …

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. …

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 …

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 …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …

responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are … economic incentives are very important for intra-household leave-sharing. Increasing the couples' after tax income by $9 per …