Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …'s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

and growth, whose simulations match our empirical findings. The current trend of population aging and reduced fertility is …