how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is …

, this implies higher saving rates by young men and lower saving rates by young women than in less traditional countries, the … opposite being the case with saving rates of married women relative to those of married men. We establish the relevance of …

-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and …

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 … Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated …

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 …