productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …

provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any … a model of non- random labor force participation to identify its impact. A one unit increase in our poor child …

. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A … agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …

dynamic life-cycle structural model where women decide both labour supply and fertility, conditional on the characteristics of …-term contract wages and subsidising permanent contract wages, induces 20% of the women who are already mothers to have their second … security. In many countries, these contracts are particularly common among young women. In this paper, I study the impact of …

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend … fertility, family transfers, and education. The model, estimated to the US in the 2000s, implies that a counterfactual flat … income-fertility profile would-through the equalization of initial conditions-increase intergenerational mobility by 6%. The …

intergenerational mobility? We study these questions with particular interest in the impact of two family choices: fertility and … transfers. Fertility rates, which are higher for low-income than high-income families, are associated with differences in the … level of resources available for children's education. To evaluate the quantitative importance of fertility and family …

This paper introduces endogenous fertility into a model of occupational choice, and studies its steady states. Three … main results are obtained. First, despite the presence of both income and substitution effects in fertility choice, general … fertility. Occupational mobility arises in steady state, generated by differential fertility across various occupational …