To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … participation of women and reduces gender gaps …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

A strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …

estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity … inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use exogenous variations in fertility due to twin births to measure the impact of …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to … higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

-if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock-low fertility beyond the early forties-is central to this gender …This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …