This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility … leave delayed higher-order births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a …

fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just … subsequent fertility. First, fathers' increasing involvement in childcare led to higher labor force attachment among mothers …. This may have raised the opportunity cost of an additional child. We also find that men reported lower desired fertility …

relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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

supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over …

This paper examines how women's fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth using six … cost of childbearing and that this will lower fertility, we find that an increase in the profits of female business …-owners in Ethiopia and Togo results in them having more children. We also observe a positive fertility response to increases in …