Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

—to study the causal effect of C-sections on child health and on the health, fertility and labor market responses for mothers … impact on maternal health, future fertility or maternal labor market outcomes. …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the analysis of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents …

children's health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in …