two theoretical predictions. On the one hand, job uncertainty at the beginning of women's employment careers causes … couples to postpone parenthood. On the other hand, job uncertainty in women's mid-career lives causes couples to enter …-Economimc Panel (SOEP). Ordinary least squares and fixed-effects estimations show that, at the beginning of women's employment careers …

mathematics (STEM). Using data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the author finds that women … type of grouping estimator and a control function approach is used. The estimation results show, that women in STEM work …

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …

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

generation. The cultural influence is strongest for women with low education. …Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth …

of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes … countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

suggest that women postpone fertility when the wage penalty for time off work in the current period are high; and the …After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0 … suggests that rising returns to experience and education favor career investment and the postponement of births. Our results …