first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …

, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …

the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender-specific division …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) we also find that the … exceeds the husband’s income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income … consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …