Planning and other territorial policies within Europe are more and more dependant upon its relations with the rest of … dominant representations of Europe in the world are currently available: (i) the “continent” view, which describes territories … different, and because they give rise to different European territorial policies. (1) The “continent” view of Europe entails …

egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …

on individual fertility behaviors in France. Indeed, the French laws make it very difficult to collect data on the … significantly influences fertility. To have been raised in a religious family and to be a believer do not matter either. The … estimated fertility of a woman assisting offices every week is 24% higher that the expected fertility of a woman who never …

equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies … explain differences in household decisions between countries. The solution shows a U-shaped relationship between fertility and … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … intergenerational trade affect fertility and longevity. It is shown that the age structure must converge asymptotically towards a stable …

We explore the optimal fertility age-pattern in a four-period OLG economy with physical capital accumulation. For that ….s Serendipity Theorem still holds. Finally, we study the dynamics and social optimum of an economy with interior fertility rates … during the reproduction period. It is shown that various fertility age-patterns are compatible with the social optimum, as …

examine how the cost structure of early and late children in terms of time and goods a¤ects the optimal fertility timing. Then …

egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …

annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …