This paper simulates the impact of a permanent fertility shock on economic growth, using endogenous versus exogenous … decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education …

report evidence that the extended model with endogenous marriage contracts can fit divorce patterns observed in Canadian data …

effects, but treat existing children as strictly exogenous produce a smaller effect of fertility than those obtained treating … to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … predetermined existing children and with individual effects using PSID data. We use the family sex composition as an instrument for …

Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple matter”, the analysis accounts for the characteristics of both the … opportunity cost of motherhood connected to higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the … be a significant dissuasive deterrent discouraging the decision to have children. Couples with unemployed women are less …

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …

We examine the pathways by which gender inequality affects fertility and hampers growth. We introduce several … characterize a Malthusian corner regime which is characterized by strong gender inequality in education and high fertility. We find … regime while reducing the wage gender gap lowers fertility only in countries which have already escapted from it. The key …

This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality schocks. In a 3-periods OLG model, young … adults determine their optimal fertility, labor supply and life-cycle consumption with both exogenous child and adult … shocks raise fertility due to insurance and life-cycle mechanisms respectively. In general equilibrium, adult mortality …

winning. A clan’s fertility is determined ex ante by each group. In the quest for greater bargaining power, each clan … between Easter and Tikopia Islands. The paper also makes a methodological contribution in that it is the first fertility model … to include strategic complementarities between groups’ fertility decisions …

fertility model generating a demographic transition. Extending Samuelson’s (1975) work in such a setting, we analyze the problem … of the first best, showing that a pension policy linking pension benefits to the number of children constitutes an …

accumulation and inflation with endogenous fertility, i.e. endogenous population growth. The model establishes an inverse relation … money. A higher monetary growth rate increases fertility, since it reduces its opportunity cost, and hence diminishes …