Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin — a proxy for … cultural imprint — influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

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

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …