detect possible changes in fertility, we employ a Difference-in-Difference approach, in which we compare the treatment group …

This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using … data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in Norway, but women …'s fertility response to the pandemic may differ depending on their life situation. We use the first lockdown on March 12, 2020 as …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … model of 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 …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as … part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate … alone entails a higher fertility rate and a lower ratio of high- to low-ability children, as compared to using education …