We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997 …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the analysis of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents …

children's health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in …