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. …

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 …

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market …

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories — children as … predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the “old-age security” to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are …

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

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo …