To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

Although abortion trends can be highly informative for understanding fertility reactions amid COVID-19 pandemic, this … perspective is rarely taken yet. In contrast to many other countries, Germany has reached above-average fertility rates in the … fertility patterns contrast with trends in many high-income countries. We argue that Germany's robust social policies were …

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …

This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …