This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …

assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

labor income tax on the fertility rate and per capita consumption. The effects on per capita consumption are opposite in the … hence stimulates per capita consumption. -- child allowance ; child rearing ; endogenous fertility ; wage income tax …