Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …

of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …

This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …

grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that women in Germany …' children increases the probability of having to commute. We build a general equilibrium model of residence choice, fertility …, fertility and labor market outcomes. We simulate our model to analyze how women's decisions regarding residence, fertility, and …

partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …

-low fertility levels in Italy. Starting from the assumption that childbearing decisions also depend on uncertainty about future … employment, income, and wealth, we empirically assess how fertility intentions are affected by: 1) the deprivation of a quality …

This is one of the first effort to make structural estimation of fertility in Russia.Normal distribution of random …