I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility …

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model … benefit system and analyze the long-run impact on fertility and female labor supply. Our simulations indicate three central …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …