Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with …

- rived from large linked administrative individual labour market data from Germany for a period of three decades. We obtain …

the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …