This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the … and is intended to benefit women who are looking for work, in school, or working -with the exception of those who already … program I use a combination of triple differences and synthetic control methods, and find that EI increased women …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the … decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be … methods. We find that children have a strong effect on a women's labor market behavior in both the pre- and post-birth period …

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …

housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … in the level of education of women. Despite this development female labor force participation rates have remained roughly … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …

wage. We find this for all household types; (7) The presence of(more) children reduces the hours of labor supplied by women …