There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective … for external child care into a welfare program with child benefits makes families better off. …

In 1999 the UK government made major reforms to the system of child-contingent benefits, including the introduction of …-2003 government spending per-child on these benefits rose by 50 per cent in real terms, a change that was unprecedented over a thirty … a positive fertility effect for women in couples and show that this is the case. We find that there was an increase in …

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …

different reforms. Where possible we provide an international comparison. We find that inflow into benefits programs responds to … (financial) incentives. The outflow is much more difficult to affect, in particular we could not find any evidence of substantial …

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in …

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We … child's first to the child's second birthday. As parental leave benefits can be automatically renewed when a new mother is … children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy which …

We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … effect of the reform is ambiguous on both outcomes. We find that the combined reforms significantly increased both fertility …