Speaker: Patrick Leitloff, PhD candidate in Economics at Northwestern University
Title: "Negotiating Parenthood: An Account of the Changing Relationship between Women’s Work and Fertility" (Joint work with Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann)
Abstract: We develop a bargaining model of fertility in which couples negotiate over children without ex-ante commitment, and in which the marginal child penalty, i.e. the career cost borne by mothers from having an additional child, is the key driver of higher-order fertility decisions. As women's labor market opportunities improve, the interaction of rising total child costs and a nonlinearly changing marginal penalty can generate the empirically observed reversal from a negative to a positive cross-country relationship between female labor force participation and fertility.







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