• Does health influence fertility? 

      Syse, Astri; Dommermuth, Lars; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion Paper;No. 921, Working paper, 2020-02)
      Poor health may constrain women’s capacity for active leisure, including family life and childrearing, for participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied ...
    • Effects of extended paternity leave on union stability and fertility 

      Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Drange, Nina (Discussion Paper;No. 899, Working paper, 2019-03-14)
      Long paternity leaves have the potential for lasting effects on parental unions, potentially reducing specialization and increasing union stability and fertility. We put these hypotheses to a causal test, using an ...
    • Effects of income and the cost of children on fertility. Quasi-experimental evidence from Norway 

      Galloway, Taryn Ann; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion Papers;No. 828, Working paper, 2015-11-30)
      The relationship between income, cost of childrearing and fertility is of considerable political and theoretical interest. We utilize exogenous variation in family income and the direct cost of children to estimate causal ...
    • Effects of policy on fertility: A systematic review of (quasi)experiments 

      Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion Paper;No. 922, Working paper, 2020-02)
      This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the literature of policy effects on fertility after 1970 in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia. Empirical studies were selected through extensive systematic searches, ...
    • Explaining residential clustering of fertility 

      Bergsvik, Janna; Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion Paper;No. 939, Working paper, 2020-10)
      Numerous studies have shown that fertility behavior is spatially clustered. In addition to pure context effects, two causal mechanisms could drive this pattern. First, neighbors may influence each other’s fertility behavior, ...
    • Increasingly stable or more stressful? Children and union dissolution across four decades: Evidence from Norway 

      Vinberg, Elina; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde (Discussion papers;814, Working paper, 2015-07)
      This study describes the association between having children and the risk of union disruption, and whether this association has changed over time. We expand upon previous research by including data on cohabiting as well ...
    • The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence from IV estimation 

      Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion papers;802, Working paper, 2015-03)
      While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two ...
    • Union dissolution and childlessness: New insights from sequence analysis 

      Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (Discussion papers;823, Working paper, 2015-10)
      This study investigates how the association between union dissolution and childlessness depends on life course context. Data on union histories and fertility are taken from the Norwegian GGS. To observe union histories up ...