Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent … of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The …'s outcomes) as mediators in order to assess the indirect effect of PPD on maternal employment, utilising several waves of data …

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We … countries for the period from 1996 to 2017. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty decreases the fertility rate, as …

is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … retirement in the late 1950s and in the 1960s instead freed positions and created employment opportunities. Finally, we show that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom …

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of the effect of uncertainty on fertility. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We use a new …. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty shocks decrease the fertility rate. This evidence is robust to different …

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We … countries for the period from 1996 to 2017. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty decreases the fertility rate, as …