Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … spheres (maternity/paternity leaves, workplace flexibility measures), fertility promotion, childbearing and childcare support …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

fertility. Generally, the reform increased child benefits. However, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income … and sibship size. We use this heterogeneity of the reform to identify causal effects on fertility using a difference … child benefit reform did not yield robust or statistically significant fertility effects for low income couples. We find …

Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …

the fertility decisions, it is very difficult to estimate the average effect. On the other hand, the existence of … make fertility decisions knew the consequences of childbearing that are currently unexpected to them. Thus, a reasonable … state response to low fertility might be to support research on whether families on the whole would be better off with more …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

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