gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies …

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with … endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare … services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may …

policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … 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 …

fertility are almost similar; (2) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both single and married; (3 … rise in education and wage inequality, and by the shrinking gender wage gap. …We develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number …

This paper contributes to the study of the relationship between religion and fertility. More speci cally, I investigate … the impact of being Catholic on fertility in France. Fertility is measured either by the number of children ever born or … by completed fertility. I show that women who are strong practicers have signi cantly more children than other women …

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 …

educational choices. Individuals decide whether to invest in additional education according to their expectations regarding future …. Then, we analyse the long-term implications of a public policy that would favour education and make it possible to select …

the probability of entering higher education. Differences in ability(ies) and in parental human capital are much more …

The purpose is to provide some empirical evidence for promoting new insights into the economics of education … impact on fixed earnings and flexible pay of the traditional human capital theory variables (education and experience) on the …