Labour income taxation, child rearing policies and fertility

We examine how subsidy policies to support child-rearing affect the fertility rate in a textbook general equilibrium overlapping generations model extended to account for endogenous fertility decisions of individuals. It is shown the counter-intuitive result that increasing the child grant may actually reduce the long-run fertility rate.

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Year of publication:	2007-12-20
Authors:	Gori, Luca ; Fanti, Luciano
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 10.2007, 20, p. 1-10
Publisher:	AccessEcon

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J1 - Demographic Economics ; H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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