decline in fertility on growth when compared with an exogenous growth model. This result stems from the rise in education …This paper simulates the impact of a permanent fertility shock on economic growth, using endogenous versus exogenous … growth OLG models. An endogenous growth model, with education as the engine of growth, dampens the negative impact of a …

This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality schocks. In a 3-periods OLG model, young … adults determine their optimal fertility, labor supply and life-cycle consumption with both exogenous child and adult … shocks raise fertility due to insurance and life-cycle mechanisms respectively. In general equilibrium, adult mortality …

This paper shows that differences in fertility across European countries mainly emerge in the transition from the first … to the second child and that childcare services enabling women to work are an important determinant for this transition …-SILC) for estimating a woman's probability of having a second child as a function of education. …

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must … education and to tax births. Second, when the Social Welfare Function does not consist of the average utility, the social …. In this case, the optimal economic policy consists in subsidizing births and taxing education. Finally, when the health …

characterize a Malthusian corner regime which is characterized by strong gender inequality in education and high fertility. We find …We examine the pathways by which gender inequality affects fertility and hampers growth. We introduce several … regime while reducing the wage gender gap lowers fertility only in countries which have already escapted from it. The key …

We jointly model fertility and participation decisions of women who live in couple using a dynamic model. In this paper … we analyze the labour supply and the fertility decisions of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain, Germany, UK and … an annual basis taking into account the initial conditions problem. The decisions of participation and fertility of women …

if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the … at marriage, fertility rate, and mean age at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …

winning. A clan’s fertility is determined ex ante by each group. In the quest for greater bargaining power, each clan … between Easter and Tikopia Islands. The paper also makes a methodological contribution in that it is the first fertility model … to include strategic complementarities between groups’ fertility decisions …

fertility model generating a demographic transition. Extending Samuelson’s (1975) work in such a setting, we analyze the problem …

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents …