particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in … childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and …

-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender … inequality, we conclude that paid childcare leave for working women confers some positive benefits. …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … 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 …

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …