We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction … estimations, we employ matching and regression techniques which account for this selection into motherhood. We find motherhood to …

matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …

well in matching empirically observed return to work profiles. The simulation of alternative counterfactual regimes shows …