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

“...An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields...”

“..."This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary...”

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

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

“...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...”

“...This thesis investigates patterns and determinants of fertility in Germany and consists of four empirical studies. The first study focuses on the development...”

“...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...”