Using Greek Census data for 1991 and 2001 and applying IV-estimation techniques suggested by Angrist and Evans (1998), we investigate whether parental preferences regarding the sex composition of children identify the causal effect of fertility on maternal employment. The results show that...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality between female labor supply and fertility in the presence of auxiliary variables such as education, female wages, and male relative cohort size. We employ annual time series data spanning the period 1948 to 2007 for both an aggregate and...