low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the … UK did not receive means-tested child benefits, amounting to a reduction in income relative to the previous system of …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the … organization of the family. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; welfare state ; risk sharing …

by two key features of leave policies: flexibility in leave duration and financial incentives. To disentangle their … impact, we exploit recent changes to the Austrian parental leave system, which initially offered flat monthly benefits for 36 …-dependent benefits, increasing net income replacement rates to 80 percent. Using a regression discontinuity design based on eligibility …

outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …

subsidies ; marital instability ; divorce ; fertility …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal …