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significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no …
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In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …
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show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
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multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …
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Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …
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Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
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of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …
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