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 …We develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number …) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped. We show how family patterns have been shaped by the …

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 …

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 … fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Our findings are robust once controlling for birth …

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 …

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 …

July 1994 extension of the Allocation parentale d'éducation to parents of two children (among which one is less than three … fertility on mothers' labour supply and seems to help mothers to better conciliate family and professional life but our …

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 …

, reducing child poverty, raising the levels of education and well being of children, and increasing equal opportunities.  the … families: o On fertility and the decision to have children (chapter 3); authors M-Th. Letablier and O. Thévenon o On parents … children over the long and short term: - Direct financial costs, e.g. for housing, health care, education, child care …

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 …