Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …

special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …

. In this investigation, the fertility choice response to this policy across maternal age and birth order are measured … early 1980s. The results suggest that the policy has elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative … growth in fertility of maternal age groups 20-29, which is sustained past 2008, even as a growth in birth rates of older …

This paper explores the effects of house prices on fertility rates using a new instrumental variable strategy … assessment of house prices and fertility nexus reveals that these effects vary by region and demographic subgroup. Taken together …