This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of … mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … not be representative for all women, we take account of selectivity by explicitly modelling the childbirth decision of …

following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …

duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …-term sickness absence of returned mothers who gave birth before and after the change in leave legislation. Our findings suggest that …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to … ; happiness ; comparisons ; panel, households, marriage …

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

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 …

care use accounting for the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This …When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the … endogeneity has been neglected in studies on this issue so far, even though the decision to use child care outside the home is …