The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for … representative women with different numbers of children. These are then combined with the earnings function to simulate lifetime … income. The simulations indicate that the earnings forgone as a result of bearing and rearing two children can be decomposed …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies … that the impact of the mother's wage on her completed fertility varies with the market price of child care, and that this …

-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 … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and …

, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

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 …