in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …

Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced … at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …

of the two: if and only if children are more complementary to leisure should the taxbenefit link be given a positive … may justify redistribution from families with children to those without implied by most pension systems. We find that the … opposite redistribution, from the childless to those with children, would be efficient if individuals have low risk aversion …

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children … discussed in the light of family policies implemented in China and Sub-Saharan Africa. …