exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children … standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing …

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 … health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …

We examine how far changes in fertility trends are related to ongoing economic development in OECD countries. In the … light of the inverse J-shaped relationship between the human development index (HDI) and total fertility rates that was … recently found by Myrskylä, Kohler and Billari (2009), we single out the impact of economic development on fertility. We …

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 …, having more than two children has no longer a negative effect on the participation probability of mothers. In addition, this …

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 …

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 … parents) of parenthood and of raising children in European Countries;  the effectiveness, in the short and long term, of …

impact. The women's education negatively influences fertility in the sense that the least educated women have more children … 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 …