This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …

: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years … of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …

To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …