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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

We study the labor market impact of unplanned pregnancy among women using longacting reversible contraceptives to delay pregnancy. While most women successfully delay, some have unplanned pregnancies, providing quasi-random variation in pregnancy timing. Analyzing linked health and labor market...

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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

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Malthusian migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - 2026

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Malthusian Migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - 2025

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Foreign manufacturing jobs and women : impacts on work, marriage, and childbirth

Drozdoff, Natalia; McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2026

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Migration reform and fertility : evidence from rural China

Jin, Wenchao; Jin, Zhangfeng - 2026

How do institutional barriers to migration shape fertility in developing economies? We analyze the staggered removal of institutional barriers to rural-to-urban migration across 283 Chinese cities. We find that reducing these frictions led to a significant and persistent increase in fertility in...

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Men's working-time flexibility and transition to 2nd birth : evidence for couples in Germany

Kałamucka, Agata; Matysiak, Anna; Osiewalska, Beata - 2026

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Technological change, labour markets and family behaviours in Sweden

Matysiak, Anna; Andersson, Linus; Hardy, Wojciech - 2026

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Gender norms and the quantity-quality tradeoff : evidence from free primary education in Africa

Collins, Matthew; Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2026 - Original version: July 2025, this version: January 2026

This paper investigates the causal impact of free primary education (FPE) on fertility decisions among parents in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the interplay between the policy, intra-household bargaining, and cultural norms. Using Demographic and Health Survey data and exploiting the...

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Gender norms and the quantity-quality tradeoff : evidence from free primary education in Africa

Collins, Matthew; Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2026

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Marriage, fertility, and female labor force participation in an aging economy

Arnauld, Toama Boke Aime; Fujimoto, Junichi; Hsu, Minchung - 2026

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2026

We document that women strategically sort into "family-friendly" sectors characterized by lower returns to experience but lower per-child penalties before the birth of their first child. This anticipatory sorting represents an ex-ante cost of motherhood that is entirely missed by conventional...

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2025

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Trends and patterns in childlessness by age, race, ethnicity, and education in the United States : a research note

Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel; Root, Leslie; Alexander, Monica - 2026

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Fertility and family leave polices in Germany : optimal policy design in a dynamic frameworK

Wang, Hanna - 2026

I develop and estimate a life-cycle discrete-choice model of fertility and female labor supply to study the optimal design of a range of child-related policies. First, I examine two German reforms that introduced wage-contingent parental leave payments and expanded access to low-cost public...

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U-shaped association between Education and fertility among married women : evidence from Japan

Liu, Yang - 2026

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Demographic pressure, emancipation and selection into the Great Trek

Fourie, Johan; Links, Calumet - 2026

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Grandparenthood related to reduced risk of gray divorce : evidence from 15 countries

Dierker, Philipp; Skirbekk, Vegard - 2026

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Son preference, intergenerational household dynamics, and women's mental health in India

Anukriti, S; Herrera, Catalina; Hossain, Shahadat; … - 2026

We examine how son preference affects women's mental health across generations using original survey data from extended households in rural India. Leveraging exogenous variation in the sex of the firstborn child, we find that mothers-in-law (MILs) whose coresident daughter-in-law (DIL) had a...

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2026

We investigate how information frictions affect the efficacy of contraception provision programs. We study a Costa Rican initiative that combined free access to long-acting reversible contraceptives and a tailored information campaign to correct for baseline misinformation. Using administrative...

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2025

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Family spillovers of miscarriage

Matić, Lea-Karla - 2026 - This version: May 2026

Using Austrian administrative data, I estimate the causal effect of miscarriage on women's labor market and health outcomes, as well as spillover effects on close family members. To do so, I construct counterfactuals for affected individuals from those who experience a miscarriage at a later...

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Fertility measurement in data-constrained settings : possibilities and limitations of a facebook-recruited network reporting survey in Senegal

Donzowa, Jessica; Perrotta, Daniela; Feehan, Dennis; … - 2026

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The effects of fertility timing on women's wages : a comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom

Vecgaile, Linda; Härkönen, Juho - 2026

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Parental earnings trajectories around childbirth in Japan : evidence from local tax records

Fukai, Taiyo; Kondo, Ayako - 2025

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Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

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Migration, Child Education, Human Capital Accumulation, and a Brain Dilution Tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

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Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

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The parenthood gap : firms and earnings inequality after kids

Jack, Rebecca; Tannenbaum, Daniel; Timpe, Brenden - 2025

We document the dynamics of career paths around parenthood, capturing worker advancement within firms and across firms with differing pay rates. Using a new linkage between administrative data on U.S. workers' fertility and labor market histories, we show that the parental earnings gap is partly...

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Some intergenerational arithmetic to control public debt in the EU

Romp, Ward E.; Beetsma, Roel; Busse, Matthias; Larch, Martin - 2025

Long-term projections are the bedrock of any analysis looking at the sustainability of public finances. This paper computes the changes in economic growth in individual European Union (EU) countries needed for government debt-to-GDP ratios to stay on their baseline trajectories (taken from the...

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Care policy effects on individuals' decisions of marriage, fertility and family elderly care provision

Yakita, Akira - 2025

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause - a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms - also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and...

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

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The Menopause "Penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2024 - Current version: 15 March 2024

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Refugee immigration and natives' fertility

Aboulhosn, Aya; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ozcan, Berkay - 2025

Debates about immigration’s role in addressing population aging typically concentrate on immigrant fertility rates. Moreover, standard projections account for migration’s impact on overall population growth while largely overlooking how immigration might affect native fertility. In contrast,...

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Refugee immigration and natives' fertility

Aboulhosn, Aya; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ozcan, Berkay - 2025

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Refugee immigration and natives' fertility

Aboulhosn, Aya; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ozcan, Berkay - 2025

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The short-term fertility impact of abortion law restrictions : a research note

Matysiak, Anna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2025

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Strategic responses to disparities in spousal desired fertility : experimental evidence from rural Tanzania

Herrera, Catalina; McCarthy, Aine Seitz - 2025

In sub-Saharan Africa, the gap in fertility preferences between men and women may influence household fertility outcomes as men usually desire more children and have more intra-household bargaining power. We estimate the effect of an informational family planning program that randomizes the...

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Workplace peer effects in fertility decisions

De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2025

This paper examines the impact of co-workers' fertility on individual fertility decisions. Using matched employer-employee data from Italian social security records (2016-2020), we estimate how fertility among co-workers of similar age and occupation affects the individual likelihood of having a...

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Workplace peer effects in fertility decisions

De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2025

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Workplace peer effects in fertility decisions

De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2024

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For better or for babies : fertility constraints and marriage in China

Giorgi, Lucie; Raiber, Eva - 2025

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For better or for babies: fertility constraints and marriage in China

Giorgi, Lucie; Raiber, Eva - 2025

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Effects of childcare policies on fertility and maternal labor supply : focus on endogenous gender power within households

Sakamoto, Ryo - 2025

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Women's education, employment, and cost of family formation : a structural analysis of fertility decline in Korea

Lee, Jong-Wha; Song, Eunbi - 2025

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2025

This paper presents new causal evidence on the "power" of oral contraceptives in shaping women's lives, leveraging the 1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that affected Pill take-up. We analyze administrative data to...

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2023

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2022

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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2025

Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference-in-differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who...

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The effects of tenure-track systems on selection and productivity in economics

Nieddu, Marco G.; Nisticò, Roberto; Pandolfi, Lorenzo - 2025

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The effects of tenure-track systems on selection and productivity in economics

Nieddu, Marco G.; Nisticò, Roberto; Pandolf, Lorenzo - 2025

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The effects of tenure-track systems on selection and productivity in economics

Nieddu, Marco G.; Nisticò, Roberto; Pandolfi, Lorenzo - 2025

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Brain drain or brain dilution tax : a sending countryʼs perspective

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

I investigate how taxing immigrants and redistributing the collected funds as educational subsidies influence human capital accumulation and growth in the source economy. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from...

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Exploring the role of technological innovation and fertility on energy intensity : is a fresh narrative unfolding?

Hondroyiannis, George B.; Papapetrou, Evangelia; … - 2025

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Reframing the relationship between fertility and education in adolescence : 60 years of evidence from Latin America

Garbett, Ann; Neal, Sarah; Luna Hernandez, Angela; … - 2025

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Bridging generations : intergenerational transfers and time use in a changing world

Ho, Christine - 2025

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Guaranteed minimum income and fertility

Dachille, Giuseppe; De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto - 2025

We study the fertility effects of Italy's Reddito di Cittadinanza (RdC), a national minimum income program introduced in 2019. Exploiting administrative data from the Italian Social Security Institute and a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design, we document that RdC increased recipients'...

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Guaranteed minimum income and fertility

Dachille, Giuseppe; De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto - 2025

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Guaranteed minimum income and fertility

Dachille, Giuseppe Pio; Paola, Maria De; Nisticò, Roberto - 2025

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Female's education, wage gap, demographic transition and economic growth : methodological notes from the Catalan case (1900-2020)

Camps, Enriqueta - 2025

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Female's education, wage up, demographic transition and econòmic growth : methodological notes from the Catalan case (1900-2020)

Camps, Enriqueta - 2025

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Son preference and multidimensional well-being

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2025

Son preference, or desire by parents for male offspring, is a common gender bias that obstructs policy efforts towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality. The gendered nature of well-being calls for a multidimensional approach. Popular measures are often...

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Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood

Giannantoni, Costanza; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2025

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Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood

Giannantoni, Constanza; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2024

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Regional government institutions and the capacity for women to reconcile career and motherhood

Giannantoni, Costanza; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2024

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Pollution, reproductive health capital, and fertility

Ykita, Akira - 2025

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The empowerment paradox? : the long-run impact of a cycling program for girls in Zambia

Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Prakash, Nishith; Steinert, Janina - 2025

This study examines the five-year impacts of a bicycle distribution program for adolescent girls in rural Zambia, implemented across 91 schools as part of a randomized controlled trial. While the program increased girls' self-reported empowerment and reduced experiences of domestic and intimate...

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Motherhood and informality : empirical evidence from Russia

Musayir, Arlan; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - 2025

This paper investigates the causal impact of childbirth on women's likelihood of informal employment in Russia using twenty years of RLMS. We apply an event study framework following Kleven et al. (2019) to quantify child penalties in labour market outcomes and whether women are more likely to...

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The effect of abortion policies on fertility and human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dimico, Arcangelo - 2025

I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the potential consequences of a reduced international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces fertility through two complementary channels. For...

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