We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The … effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement …

The negative association between fertility and female labour market participation is complicated by the endogeneity of … fertility. We address this problem by using an exogenous variation in family size caused by infertility shocks, mainly related … to the fact that nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely documented …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

maternal health status. -- delayed first birth ; fertility shocks ; Italy ; labor market, new mothers …We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The … effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and …

The negative association between fertility and female labour supply is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. We … nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female … according to the age of the child. -- participation ; children ; motherhood ; female employment rate ; Italy …

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … market involvement. Differences across education levels are more pronounced with respect to full time employment than with …

We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor …

This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers …

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among … treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings … are: ( i) negative, large and long lasting; ( ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor …

The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the … us to analyse the role of Family Planning (FP), reproductive and child care programmes, for the employment probability of … employment. Our results show that the effect of this particular FP intervention has been more effective for women's employment …