I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. My advisors are Erik Plug and Bas van der Klaauw. I am interested in empirical microeconomics with a focus on labor and family economics.
You can reach me at j.ilciukas@uva.nl or on X.
Publications
Fertility and Parental Retirement. Journal of Public Economics. 2023.
I study how reduced retirement opportunities in one generation affect fertility in the subsequent generation. I use administrative Dutch data and exploit the 2006 Dutch pension reform, which induced individuals born from January 1, 1950 onward to delay retirement while exempting those born earlier. I find that this reform reduced fertility among women with affected mothers. The reduction is economically significant and persists after the impact on retirement fades out. I supplement my analysis with survey evidence and argue that the fertility reduction can be explained by reduced grandparental child care supply.
Work in Progress
The Only Child (with Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, and Astrid Rasmussen).