Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two …

This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …

In this paper we study the effect of television exposure on fertility. We exploit a natural experiment that took place … in lower fertility. This conclusion is robust to alternative model specifications and data sets. Our results imply that … individual fertility decisions are affected by role models or information about other ways of life promoted by media. …