Increasing mothers labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a …-run effects on mothers employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups ranging up to 10 per cent …

. However, while the household s total consumption is publicly observable, the consumption levels of the individual spouses are …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …