We examine how far fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility … rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy settings on fertility …' choice to have children. Policy levers do not have similar weight, however: in-cash benefits covering childhood after the …

returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using … Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate predominantly towards other Arab countries characterized by higher fertility … show that return migration has a significant and positive influence on the total number of children. These results suggest …

returnees adjust their fertility choices to match the norms which prevail in their previous countries of destinations, using … Egyptian household-level data. Egyptians migrate predominantly towards other Arab countries characterized by higher fertility … show that return migration has a significant and positive influence on the total number of children. These results suggest …

In France, having more than two children has a causal negative impact on mothers' labour supply. The question addressed … children on mothers' participation. Conversely, some family policies could increase this effect by inciting mothers to have an … July 1994 extension of the Allocation parentale d'éducation to parents of two children (among which one is less than three …

The paper proposes an economic and cultural mechanism that can predict a fertility transition and its timing. The … cultural structure of the population is endogenously determined by a cultural evolution mechanism. The fertility rates … behaviours (in term of fertility) to the traditionalist parents. An increase in the average income level provoked by the …

standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can … exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows …

families: o On fertility and the decision to have children (chapter 3); authors M-Th. Letablier and O. Thévenon o On parents … parents) of parenthood and of raising children in European Countries;  the effectiveness, in the short and long term, of …, reducing child poverty, raising the levels of education and well being of children, and increasing equal opportunities.  the …

Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly … to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until they get a son. Insurance through sons entails substantial …