Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

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

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. …

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that … moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a …

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

human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …