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Parental Benefits, Employment and Fertility Dynamics

Walker, JamesWorking paper no. 1995-25 Abstract This paper investigates the effect of parental benefits on the timing and spacing of births and on employment dynamics of Swedish women. Using microdata on wages and incomes, I estimate a reduced-form multistate duration model of the bivariate life cycle fertility and employment process. The paper provides an example …