particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among … treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings … are: ( i) negative, large and long lasting; ( ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …

potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …