We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We … exploit a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum duration of parental leave from the … planned children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy …

exploit the suspension of a cash-on-hand marriage subsidy in Austria to examine the differential behavior of marginal and …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We … exploit a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum duration of parental leave from the … planned children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …