higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …

determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality …. The analysis finds evidence for strong recuperation effects, i.e. women with greater human capital endowments follow, on … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …

Many governments have introduced generous childcare subsidies to allow all children access to early childhood education …

with childbirth. In this paper we estimate the effect of the timing of women's first birth on later labor market outcomes …

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The models benchmark … equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well as the differential fertility pattern of educational groups in Germany …

that women get their first baby when they reach the peak of their career. Less than 50 percent of all first-time mothers … mothers who have a higher attachment to the company. These women also exhibit lower exit probabilities afterwards. These …