over fertility. Furthermore, we find that the ability to commit to household resource allocations depends on the gender of …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …

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 …-term contract wages and subsidising permanent contract wages, induces 20% of the women who are already mothers to have their second …