In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

This paper develops a model of intrahousehold allocation with endogenous fertility, which captures the relationship …. The important contribution is that fertility is treated as endogenous, something which other models of intrahousehold … more than one child. The model furthermore shows that not taking account of the endogeneity of fertility when analysing …