decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …

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 … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on … 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 …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …

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

Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child … of the two: if and only if children are more complementary to leisure should the taxbenefit link be given a positive … may justify redistribution from families with children to those without implied by most pension systems. We find that the …