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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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This paper studies the design of pension schemes in a society where fertility is endogenous and parents differ in their …, fertility must be subsidized at the margin to correct for the externality that accompanies fertility. In a world of asymmetric … offsetting tax on fertility depending on whether the redistribution is towards people with more or less children. In the former …
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predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the 'old-age security' to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with 'old-age security' even for contemporary fertility. …
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failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
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In the last century most countries have experienced both an increase in pension spending and a decline in fertility. We … argue that the interplay of pension generosity and development of capital markets is crucial to understand fertility … children, thus relaxing financial (saving) constraints and reducing fertility. We build a simple two-period OLG model to show …
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It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for 'rotten kids' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has a moral hazard effect in terms of...
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In this Paper, we study the role of subsidies to fertility in ensuring the political viability of unfunded social … older generations, and in turn choose current levels of fertility subsidies, and future levels of social security benefits … converge to a steady state lower than simple extrapolation of current trends would imply, and fertility will rebound with the …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
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II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labour …, as well as patterns for age-specific labour-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data. …
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Early retirement represents a policy response to the appearance of a mass of redundant middle-aged workers, who were not entitled to a pension transfer in their old age. This policy is distortionary, since it reduces the incentive to accumulate human capital, hence decreasing economic growth: it...
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