This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

clearly increases the likelihood to have a first child. -- Family formation ; fertility ; unemployment ; cross …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …

We use cross-national data on 26 EU countries to assess how much children and the responsibilities related to them … contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our … availability under age 3, and preferences for within-family care lead to long absences from the labor market. In all countries …

; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …