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...

Recent research reveals that divorce negatively impacts children’s welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions of the non-custodial parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...

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,...