We study the fertility effects of the 1997 Quebec Family Policy, which introduced universal childcare and … fertility at the intensive margin but had varying impacts by life stage. For younger cohorts of women early in their careers and … more children, implying that increased maternal employment may have raised the opportunity costs of additional children. …

probability for women who had at least two children. Given the previously demonstrated relationship between fertility level and … doubled, the total fertility rate reduced by more than 30 percent, and the male-to-female sex ratio at birth increased to one … long-term growth and fiscal sustainability, Armenia introduced financial incentives to promote fertility. This paper …

, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated … children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre … wives, suggesting that the high costs of raising children can be a reason for increased educational investment. …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … between the quantity and the quality of their children. However, in developing countries, when child labor is an indispensable … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …

job security on fertility decisions. Using a policy reform, which took place in Portugal in 2003, I show that the lower … dynamic life-cycle structural model where women decide both labour supply and fertility, conditional on the characteristics of …

, which corresponds to a 46 per cent increase in the birth rate. -- Child care ; Cost of children ; Fertility ; Quasi …We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous …

, which corresponds to a 4-6 per cent increase in the birth rate. -- Child care ; cost of children ; fertility ; quasi …We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous …

, which corresponds to a 46 per cent increase in the birth rate. -- Child Care ; Cost of children ; Fertility ; Quasi …We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … variable to isolate the effect of employment on fertility. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of … children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China’s one-child policy are discussed. …