This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

, West Germany, and the UK (1994-2001). The results highlight weak negative effects of unemployment on family formation among … effect on the propensity to have a first child in Germany and the UK, where institutional settings aggravate work … does not, however, generally apply to French women or to highly educated women in Germany and the UK, who, when unemployed …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …

This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied … substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … positive fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …

, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native … in Deutschland untersuchen. Dazu wurden Individualdaten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit weiteren Daten bezüglich …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … as well as fertility behavior. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employment …