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

their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education …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 …

’ fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s beliefs about pregnancy risk absent contraception have the potential …

dataset for West Germany to flexibly account for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and changes dependent on wages and … women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a …

, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence …

seems to affect fetal growth, because infants born to mothers exposed to earth tremors in early and/or mid gestation are … more likely to be large for gestational age. The estimates suggest that relatively poorer Chilean mothers are more … evidence that suggests a possible mechanism that explains the varying results across socioeconomic status. Mothers with …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the … transitioning countries from those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by …