We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence …

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …