employment for young women and that women whose first birth occurs during adolescence largely select into low-quality informal … adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the … likelihood that a woman will be employed in the informal sector. Using a panel survey in Madagascar designed to capture the …

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

reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied … by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours … in attitudes and thus also in the full-time employment of mothers with young children. …