We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

’s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account . We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …

of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have …

employment rate among young women with children and the low fertility rate in Italy summarise the difficulties encountered by …

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the …

In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in … considered labour supply and fertility as a joint decision and have explicitly taken into account the endogeneity of fertility in … on the joint decisions of labor market participation and fertility. The results of most analyses indicate that social …

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility …

unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor supply. Until recently, the consensus … was that unobserved heterogeneity is very important, and fertility is endogenous. But Hyslop (1999) challenged this. Using … that fertility is exogenous. Here, we extend Hyslop (1999) to allow classification error in employment status, using an …