How Interaction of Family Friendly Policies and Firm Decisions Affects Fertility

为这个项目做了很多工作。我们创建了数据集的工作版本，并执行了大部分必要的数据工作，例如计算项目动机和模型估计所需的所有统计数据。我们已经建立了一个模型，编程，并得到了模型的初步估计，并进行了初步的反事实实验。我们发现，家庭友好的政策影响企业如何决定雇用妇女，并连续反映在他们的生育。大多数导致生育率上升的家庭友好政策对劳动力市场结果产生负面影响，而那些对劳动力市场结果产生积极影响的政策对生育率产生负面影响。

A lot of work for the project has been done. We created a working version of the dataset and performed most of the necessary data work, such as calculation of all the necessary statistics for project motivation and for model estimation. We have built a model, programmed it and got preliminary estimates of the model and ran preliminary counterfactual experiments. We find that family-friendly policies affect how firms take decisions on employment of women and, consecutively, reflect in their fertility. Most of family-friendly policies that result in increase in fertility affect negatively labor market outcomes, and those policies that affect positively labor market outcomes, affect fertility in a negative way.