outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …

employment incentives for secondary earners. This in turn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint …

to poorer households and improving work incentives, 2) the trade-off between improving work incentives for first and for … second earners in couples, 3) the trade-off between improving work incentives for those facing strong and weak incentives in … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of …-level dataset that links 2011 census data to life event records for the population living in England and Wales, we find that better … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …

fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

-hours care, and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well-targeted. …