not display any catch-up effects. I also find a substantial heterogeneity inWest and East Germany. Because the reform …This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I … use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the … unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By … using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely … unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …

not display any catch-up effects. I also find a substantial heterogeneity inWest and East Germany. Because the reform …This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I … use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects …

not display any catch-up effects. I also find a substantial heterogeneity inWest and East Germany. Because the reform …This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I … use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the … unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By … using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …

) in Germany on fertility. I start with a brief discussion of the economic incentives of the reform and their potential …This paper reviews the research on the effects of the recent reform of the parental leave benefit system (Elterngeld … effects on fertility from a theoretical perspective. Then I refer to previous empirical studies that have examined these …

) in Germany on fertility. I start with a brief discussion of the economic incentives of the reform and their potential …This paper reviews the research on the effects of the recent reform of the parental leave benefit system (Elterngeld … effects on fertility from a theoretical perspective. Then I refer to previous empirical studies that have examined these …

) in Germany on fertility. I start with a brief discussion of the economic incentives of the reform and their potential …This paper reviews the research on the effects of the recent reform of the parental leave benefit system (Elterngeld … effects on fertility from a theoretical perspective. Then I refer to previous empirical studies that have examined these …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with …