This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European … transition to the second birth differs both among working and non-working women and across countries. For non-working women … delayed motherhood leads to a postponement effect which is higher in countries where religion and social norms determine a …

-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal … employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility, life-satisfaction and well-being. Biannual telephone interviews with … the participating mothers until the third birthday of the child give a rich data source to evaluate these outcomes. I find …

find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany …

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … human capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal child-care with maternal care. We conclude that …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … Austria. Women giving birth on different weekdays are pre-treatment observationally identical. Our instrumental variable … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in …

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood … childrearing and women's employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply a multilevel discrete time logit … model to estimate first birth risks of western German women. While we find that access to informal care arrangements …