id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cpos-446	Kreyenfeld, Michaela	Causal Modelling in Fertility Research: A Review of the Literature and an Application to a Parental Leave Policy Reform	2021	34	.pdf	application/pdf	14745	712	47	In an empirical section, we analyse the impact of the German 2007 policy reform on birth behaviour to illustrate the diffi culties involved in isolating policy effects. The fi nal chapter concludes by underscoring that even simple modelling strategies may be benefi cial for improving our understanding of how policy effects shape demographic behaviour, and for laying the groundwork for more fi ne-grained causal investigations.	cache/cpos-446.pdf	txt/cpos-446.txt