unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …

To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

effects of mortality, fertility and migration developments on the dynamics of the German pension system. We show that the past … population structure - driven by past fertility changes - and future mortality improvements will be the most important factors …

policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ lowers economic growth, while, in contrast, a decrease in the fertility …