. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … the fertility behavior of native women. …

Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility … rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is … limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility trends before and after 23 pension reforms using a long-run panel …

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …

fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

income shocks. Identification relies on fertility differences between farm and non-farm households within counties and over … time. The results suggest that in areas with a high variance in rainfall the fertility differential between farm households … other relevant forces such as income, education and children’s survival as well as the spatial correlation in fertility …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for nonmothers as compared to mothers the timing …

Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly … the number of children. We analyze the effects of age at school enrolment on fertility in Germany. Our results suggest … younger women. Although, the effects on fertility are small we observe negative life-time earning effects of late enrolment …