increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify … the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual … importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed … endogeneity of the unemployment rate which we control for by using a shift-share instrumental variable approach …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …