evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U …-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked increase monotonically with women's education. This pattern is true for all women … model to shed light on differences between the U.S. and Western Europe in fertility and women's time allocated to labor …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the … in response to a change in the parental-leave policy that inadvertently favoured women who had their second or subsequent … as a consequence of women's increasing independence of their husbands at the stage in life that we study. Furthermore, it …

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 …

positive correlation between child labour, fertility and inequality across countries of similar income per capita. The model …, when regulations were introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapidly declining fertility …

negative residual effect of women’s education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …'s education driven by differences in landownership inequality, suggest that the effect of women’s education on fertility is causal. … factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine …

fertility on the teenage childbearing of their younger sister. To identify the peer effect we utilize an educational reform that … impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious … and the effect is larger where siblings are close in age and for women from low resource households. …

the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogeneously generates increasing marginal returns to education. Although equilibrium implies underinvestment in … education, optimal policy is not to subsidise education. Instead it is to subsidise labour market participation which we argue …