, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on … whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

of the two: if and only if children are more complementary to leisure should the taxbenefit link be given a positive … may justify redistribution from families with children to those without implied by most pension systems. We find that the … opposite redistribution, from the childless to those with children, would be efficient if individuals have low risk aversion …

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories — children as …

in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …