substantially increase volunteer labor supply and female lifetime earnings. -- female labor supply ; marriage ; fertility ; negative …

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

Twin births are an important instrumental variable for the endogenous fertility decision. However, in many economic … settings, twins are not exogenous as dizygotic twinning is known to be correlated with maternal characteristics and fertility … of fertility on labor force participation and earnings. …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …

The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …