Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … decrease fertility less. Finally, the effects of the social security tax on capital per worker are negative with mandatory …

China is undergoing a particularly fast demographic transition. Accelerated through decades of political restrictions … its one-child policy. Will this policy shift succeed? Our study simulates China's old-age dependency ratio and total … dependency ratio until the end of the century, assuming total fertility rates between 1.0 and 2.0 with constant and increasing …

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … classes of workers, and because fertility in Germany in this period was still relatively high. Focusing on the state of … Prussia, we estimate differences-in-differences models that ask whether marriage and marital fertility reacted to the …

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … fertility overall only via its effects on the incentive to marry. The old age insurance by itself tended to reduce marriages … social insurance, the two effects cancelled each other and the aggregate effect on fertility was muted. …