“...This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to...”

“...This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory...”

“...We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal...”

“...This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity...”

“...We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with...”

“...•This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health.•For identification, we exploit statutory workweek changes in German public sector.•Using...”

“..."This paper investigates the effect of early-childhood citizenship status on secondary school education of immigrant offspring. Given the potential endogeneity...”

“...•We study how a paid parental leave reform affected families’ living arrangements.•The German reform replaced a means-tested benefit by a shorter universal...”

“...Die vorliegende Studie stellt den aktuellen Stand der Forschung zu Wirkungen des Elterngeldes auf das Geburtenverhalten vor. Zunächst werden die ökonomischen...”

“...We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus...”