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. …

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

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 … and family support systems during the demographic transition. Our results indicate that the seemingly explosive evolution …

variables. We find that the probability that the wife is in charge is affected by household characteristics such as family size …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …

market work, social welfare improves by taxing conditional on gender. When income sharing within the family is substantial …