We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …

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 …

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 …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …