women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … attainments. Surprisingly, we find that women reduce their intended labor supply. However, this result hides strong heterogenous … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … mirror those of breastfeeding with respect to gender and its interactions with birth order and ideal family size. Our results …

explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model … model to shed light on differences between the U.S. and Western Europe in fertility and women's time allocated to labor …Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

-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 … unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

In the last century most countries have experienced both an increase in pension spending and a decline in fertility. We … argue that the interplay of pension generosity and development of capital markets is crucial to understand fertility … children, thus relaxing financial (saving) constraints and reducing fertility. We build a simple two-period OLG model to show …

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 …

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the … of the third birth over the years up through 1991-2, after which there was a sudden increase in the tempo of childbearing …