older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

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 …'s benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy consisting of joint taxation of married couples, monetary transfers and …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility … transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … model of female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … family gap …

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 … show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …