particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

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. …

combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal … income effect on fertility is positive when quantity is a normal good. (iii) If, on the other hand, there only is own care …, there is a different kind of quantity quality trade off. The income effect on fertility is positive if quantity is a closer …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …

potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …

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. …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …

endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging …