causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

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 …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the old-age security" to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with old-age security" even for contemporary fertility. …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …