We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the “old-age security” to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with “old-age security” even for contemporary fertility. …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

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 …

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the …