the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … 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 …

composition on either mothers' marriage stability or labor supply. For black mothers, neither the gender composition, nor birth of …I employ the twin-first methodology to analyze the exogenous relationship between fertility, gender composition, and … mothers' marital status and labor supply. The regressions are based on the combination of genders and fertility in the first …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …

assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

that couples avoided divorce altogether rather than simply delaying it. While mothers extended their leave by several … months, they returned to full-time work afterwards, consistent with egalitarian gender norms in the labor market. …