higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

fertility on maternal employment. The results show that sibling-sex composition is at best a weak instrument in Greece, a low-fertility …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

The negative association between fertility and female labour market participation is complicated by the endogeneity of … fertility. We address this problem by using an exogenous variation in family size caused by infertility shocks, mainly related … to the fact that nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely documented …

Economic models of home production predict a tradeoff between a mother's fertility and her labor supply. Recent … lower than average costs to childbearing. I present a model of a mother's joint determination of fertility and labor supply …

This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1980, 1990 and 2000 to estimate synthetic-cohort life cycle effects of fertility …. For single women, the causal effect of fertility has declined significantly over time. Couples, however, have become more …

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

Though the negative correlation between fertility and development has been long acknowledged, it is challenging to … estimate the causal effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on fertility. We use a novel instrument for estimating … fertility. We find large effects on fertility and mothers’ age: increases in FLFP can explain at least 42% of the reduction in …

This paper estimates the effect of fertility on the labor force participation of married women in Korea. Since Korean … first child's sex. Using this exogenous variation as an instrumental variable for fertility, we find that having children …