at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …

Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points … (about 20 percent), particularly among teenagers who are not already mothers. The program seems to affect teenage pregnancy …

the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of discrete choice for labor supply, fertility and transition from … level wages led to lower fertility also contributing to the decline,because households with children are more likely to own …