"In this paper we analyze how motherhood affects women's wages. Using a dataset from Russia we adopt a matching …

"In this paper we analyze how motherhood affects women's wages. Using a dataset from Russia we adopt a matching …

. -- Family wage gap ; Fertility ; Transition Economics; Matching …

We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net …

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and …

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … spheres (maternity/paternity leaves, workplace flexibility measures), fertility promotion, childbearing and childcare support …

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …