We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth of the first child. We focus on the effects of pre-marital job characteristics and find that...

In the second Chapter "Grandmothers' Labor Supply and the Role of the Extended Family", which is joint work with Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, we examine the labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother. This topic has been only sparsely covered in the literature,...