fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment … fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in …

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 …

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … the argument that mothers take more parental leave as a consequence of pregnancy and breastfeeding. We compare the … going through a pregnancy increases the mothers initial parental leave, but the impact is minor. Instead, our results …

no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact … reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …

. The emphasis on women's employment as a determinant of low fertility has to be supplemented by an examination of the …

of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within MZ twins … methodology. We find strong cross-sectional associations between schooling and the fertility outcomes and some evidence that more … the effect of women’s schooling on completed fertility is not mediated through husband’s schooling but rather through age …

maternity. -- Labour markets ; fertility …

over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and decreasing … gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160,000 for …

over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …