This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …