among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility … decreases their children’s human capital levels. I demonstrate that the poor, who cannot opt out, incur greater costs than the …

displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning …

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 …