We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997 …

"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … marriage postponement explains lower fertility among the highly educated, is not well understood. In this paper, we use data … and women, focusing on the role of union formation timing in achieving fertility goals over the life course. We expand on …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … division of labor within the home leads to more children, both at the household (micro) and country (macro) levels. After … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … source of household income, parents actually incur a negative cost for having an extra child, so that the trade … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …