, as measured by the unemployment rate, do appear to lead to lower teen birth rates and can account for 28 percent of the …

policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children … leave laws) foster both choice and higher levels of employment …

Variation in tax policy presents an opportunity to estimate the responsiveness of fertility to prices. This paper … studied in the literature on AFDC and fertility. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate heterogeneous responses. I … find a strong effect of the policy on fertility, and some evidence of a heterogeneous response that may help reconcile …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … negligible to weakly positive. There is stronger evidence that spending on early education and childcare increases labor force …

-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …

One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm and Peters (1990 …), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using time series methods. We revisit this question in … do not find evidence that child tax benefits affect the level of fertility, we find some evidence of a short …

Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of … the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main …

I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …