Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …

while that of fertility is accounted for by women with tertiary education. Considerations related to inequality and … policies studied, the growth in female employment is mainly accounted for by the behaviour of women without tertiary education … married mothers' employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition …