%0 Thesis %9 Doctoral %A Venhorst, V.A. %D 2006 %F theses_frw:1071 %T Income, housing and the arrival of the first child; adjustment by households in The Netherlands %U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1071/ %X We study income and housing patterns surrounding the arrival of the first child, for Dutch households. Female labour supply declines significantly but the effect on (the subjective evaluation of) household income is limited. Also, we find little effect of children on housing arrangements, bar a small anticipation effect