Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …

greater chance of getting a mortgage to buy a home. As a result, the positive correlation between the homeownership and …

higher LTV ratio substantially increases an elderly homeowner’s likelihood of exiting homeownership. In particular, elderly … homeowners with an LTV ratio greater than 80% are more than four times likely to exit homeownership than their debt … less likely to depart from homeownership if they recently extracted equity from their homes. In addition, we find both …

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …

The authors investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models … of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to …