child can affect the woman’s decision to work. The results indicate that the hazard of leaving employment is high for women …. Even after exhausting maternity leave (12 weeks), women still face a high risk of leaving employment. When the child is … three month old women still face a 40-50% higher risk of leaving employment, but the risk tends to disappear after the child …

Nordic combination of high levels of female employment and relatively high levels of fertility has prompted the notion that …, reviews of the literature do not come to a conclusion about how policies influence fertility. One reason for this may be found … restricted to specific policies. Another reason is that social policies that may influence fertility often have goals other than …

marriage, fertility, human capital transmission, contraception and abortion decisions is built to answer this question …

on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

The negative association between fertility and female labour market participation is complicated by the endogeneity of … to the fact that nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely documented … fertility. We address this problem by using an exogenous variation in family size caused by infertility shocks, mainly related …

participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of women’s work status (i.e. having … theoretical predictions according to which the increase in the opportunity cost of motherhood connected to higher female labour … variables are women’s age, men’s work status and education, women’s citizenship, marital status and perceived economic wellbeing. …