I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …

propositions concerning the evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three phases of … economic development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children’s human capital, and generations … implications concerning the dynamic behavior of inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three income inequality …