human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We … planned children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy … when the child became 18 months old brought about no change in fertility behavior, but a labor supply effect that is …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … variable to isolate the effect of employment on fertility. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

. In this investigation, the fertility choice response to this policy across maternal age and birth order are measured … early 1980s. The results suggest that the policy has elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative … growth in fertility of maternal age groups 20-29, which is sustained past 2008, even as a growth in birth rates of older …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers …

Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …