While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …

fixed-term contracts. The paper discusses problems arising in empirical estimation, and how to address them. It concludes …

class of indirect inference models. Our smoothing procedure makes use of importance sampling weights in estimation of the … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined … driven primarily by age. We also find a modest effect of fertility induced nonemployment spells on human capital accumulation …

Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from … the final effects to the assumed target value and path of increased fertility. Since our study tries to quantify the … fiscal effects depend on the patterns of increased fertility …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

state minimum-age marriage laws (EMA), we find that EMA precipitated marriage, delayed fertility within marriage, and … improved the educational and occupational outcomes of women, especially non-college women. Thus, fertility control, within or …