We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women … effect disappears. However, the results differ somewhat across subgroups: For highly skilled women a negative gender effect …

employment in Sweden in the beginning of the 1970’s. Simulations suggest that employment among married women would have been 10 …Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after …

cases in which there are individuals who do not work. The method is then applied to married women in Sweden from 1973 to …

combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity quality trade off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …

test for reverse causality by estimating fertility responses to the health of existing children. We conclude that the … to endogenous fertility responses. Overall our results suggest that birth order effects are due to differential parental …

Sweden boasts high fertility and high female employment. However, part-time employment is very prevalent. There is a … notable gender gap in both wages and earnings, which widens substantially after women have children. In this paper we study … the effect of family policies on female employment, fertility and the gender wage gap. To this end, we develop a …

mortality, fertility rate and female education. We show that reduction in child mortality is best predicted by the level of GDP … in a country over the preceding 5 years. Fertility rate decreases when current or predicted child mortality is low, and … is weakly dependent on female education and economic growth. As fertility drops, GDP increases producing a cycle that …