This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring …. We exploit a decade of pension reforms in Italy that mandated the grandparental generation to a working horizon longer …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are …

-low fertility levels in Italy. Starting from the assumption that childbearing decisions also depend on uncertainty about future … employment, income, and wealth, we empirically assess how fertility intentions are affected by: 1) the deprivation of a quality …

Despite the many differences that exist between Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany, the three countries are among those with … the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of … informal supportive networks in daily life. Italy and Bulgaria, on the one hand, share very low levels of public support. In …

The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting … the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the supply …

increasing prevalence of union dissolution on completed fertility levels in Italy and Great Britain, two countries with very …Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by … different systems of value. We find that the net effect of union instability is to decrease fertility (by about 0.5 children for …

women born since 1940 in Italy, Great Britain and two Nordic countries (Norway and Sweden), representing three significantly … partnership processes, but also give good predictions when compared to more recent fertility indicators. We conclude that the …

We study the effect of a reduction in employment protection on fertility decisions. Using data from the Italian Labor … the average change over time in fertility decisions of women employed in large firms with the average change experienced … flexibility have on fertility decisions by increasing insecurity on career prospects. …