This paper documents the evolving impact of childbearing on the work activity of mothers between 1787 and 2014. It is … based on a compiled data set of 429 censuses and surveys, representing 101 countries and 46.9 million mothers, using the … findings: (1) the effect of fertility on labor supply is small and often indistinguishable from zero at low levels of income …

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis … model of fertility and labor force participation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. We find that the … program increased long-run fertility by about 0.15 children per woman. …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the … school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …