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

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 …

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 …

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. …

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …

Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …

of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …

fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … individuals in the small open economy are unaffected by fertility fluctuations. …

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …