. Women having their first child soon after school completion are able to catch up with childless women only after 12-15 years … exiting formal education. …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by …The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …