undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent …) parents, and may also, under some reference fertility levels, involve positive childlessness allowances. Our results are … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent …) parents, and may also, under some reference fertility levels, involve positive childlessness allowances. Our results are … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not …

household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …

age by 10% in the short-run. Completed fertility declines by 1.3 children within 20 years after the reform, reducing the …This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil … contribution base of the Pay-As-You-Go pension system in the long-run. The fertility response is strongest at higher birth parities …

’s counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children’s health and human …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare) …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …