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

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on … 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 …

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 …

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …