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

Dierker, Philipp; Skirbekk, Vegard - 2026

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Demographic pressure, emancipation and selection into the Great Trek

Fourie, Johan; Links, Calumet - 2026

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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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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 - 2026

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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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Firms as intermediaries in social policy : evidence from Japan’s 2005 employer mandate for work-childcare support

Fukai, Taiyo; Hara, Hiromi - 2026

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Can you do the dishes? : intra-household time use, labor supply and fertility

Mattia, Andrea - 2026

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China's one-child exemptions and the spousal age gap

Gao, Jiani; Park, Min Sun; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2026

This paper examines the impact of exemptions to China's 1979 One-Child Policy on fertility and the spousal age gap. The exemptions, implemented at different times across provinces, created exogenous variation that we exploit using a staggered Difference-in-Differences design. Our analysis uses...

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China's one-child exemptions and the spousal age gap

Gao, Jiani; Park, Min Sun; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2026

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Housing policy and fertility behavior in Egypt : evidence from the 1996 rental liberalization

D'Agostini, Cecilia; Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna … - 2026

Egypt's demographic trajectory has shifted markedly over recent decades, with fertility declines in the 1980s and 1990s followed by a reversal that peaked at 3.5 children per woman in 2014. While previous research has examined determinants such as women's employment, contraceptive use, and...

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Combining a survey experiment with lifecycle models to evaluate pronatalist policies

Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2026 - This draft: July 2, 2026

We develop a three-step procedure for ex-ante policy evaluation. It combines (i) a vignette survey that randomizes out-of-sample policies (child allowances and external childcare subsidies) to infer fertility responses; (ii) two applied-theory lifecycle models estimated on external microdata; and...

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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, we...

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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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Educated to be mothers? : school reform and demographic backlash

Lax-Martinez, Gema; Le Moglie, Marco; Sandi, Matteo - 2025

Social norms play a critical role in society. This paper studies how difficult it is to manipulate social norms and whether efforts to do so may result in a backlash. We study the 1945 reform of primary education implemented under Franco’s regime in Spain, which promoted nationalist-religious...

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Gender and religion : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Kok, Chun Chee - 2025

This paper provides a survey of the literature on gender differences in religiosity and the influence of religion on gender-related economic and social outcomes. Part I examines why women tend to be more religious than men, discussing central explanations. Part II explores how religion impacts...

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Gender and religion : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding; Kok, Chun Chee - 2025

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The fertility, marriage, and gender equality quandary

Zhou, Anson - 2025

This paper studies the nexus among fertility, family structure, and gender income equality. I document a novel three-way trade-off in cross-country data: simultaneously achieving high fertility, low single parenthood, and gender income equality is unlikely at all levels of economic development....

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Balancing family and career : the effect of public childcare on fertility in Japan

Fukai, Taiyo; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2025

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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 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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Do compulsory schooling laws affect fertility behaviors and marriages? : evidence from India

Bhattacharjee, Sandipa - 2025

This paper exploits an education policy in India generated by a 2010 schooling reform to examine the effect of education on women's family planning decisions. The key element of the reform was that it required students to complete eight years of primary education (age 6-14 years). I employ an...

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Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Affect Fertility Behaviors and Marriages? Evidence from India

Bhattacharjee, Sandipa - 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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Adjustments to reduced cash transfers : religious safety nets and children's long-term outcomes

Gershoni, Naomi; Gihleb, Rania; Kott, Assaf; Mansour, Hani - 2025

This paper examines how access to informal insurance shapes family responses to reductions in social welfare benefits, and how these adjustments affect children's development. In 2003, Israel reformed its child allowance program, significantly reducing unconditional cash benefits for large...

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Adjustments to reduced cash transfers : religious safety nets and children's long-term outcomes

Gershoni, Naomi; Gihleb, Rania; Kott, Assaf; Mansour, Hani - 2025

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Adjustments to reduced cash transfers : religious safety nets and children's long-term outcomes

Gershoni, Naomi; Gihleb, Rania; Kott, Assaf; Mansour, Hani - 2025

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Different mental health disorders and childlessness : the importance of partnership status

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Sanna; Nisén, Jessica; … - 2025

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Family policies in low fertility countries : evidence and reflections

Gauthier, Anne Hélène; Gietel-Basten, Stuart - 2025

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Fertility transitions in low- and middle-income countries : the role of preferences

Bongaarts, John - 2025

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Charting new courses to adulthood in the Global South

Clark, Shelley; Agnant, Khandys - 2025

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Bridging education and fertility : unraveling the role of gender attitudes

Alkasasbeh, Yusra - 2025

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The dual burdens of disability and gender norms : understanding disabled women's fertility in developing countries

Zhang, Yangyang; Zheng, Xinye; Maruyama, Shiko - 2025

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Demographic transition and structural transformation

Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Kuhn, Randall; McCully, … - 2025

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An economic theory of sexual exchanges and human capital

Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 2025

We develop a rational choice model of sexual exchange that unifies marriage and paid sex, explaining two key facts: the gendered segregation of sex markets and the decline in sexual activity and fertility. Individuals choose whether to engage in paid or unpaid sex based on income, human capital,...

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An economic theory of sexual exchanges and human capital

Carroni, Elias; Della Giusta, Marina; Dragone, Davide - 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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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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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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