, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective …

This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and … maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by … concerning intensity and speed of the provision of new child care slots for under-three-year-olds. The combination of county …

cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the … amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985 …

This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and … maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by … concerning intensity and speed of the provision of new child care slots for under-three-year-olds. The combination of county …

equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …