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We study an OLG model with child policies and a PAYG pension with endogenous retirement and fertility. The result of … of labor in old age. Fertility should be taxed or incentivized depending on whether there is full or partial retirement …
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We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing …
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Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from … the final effects to the assumed target value and path of increased fertility. Since our study tries to quantify the … fiscal effects depend on the patterns of increased fertility …
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Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no association between risk tolerance and the probability of a cohabiting birth
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the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth …This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing …
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agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …
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While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …
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This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission … tax decreases the wage and increases fertility. Although the proportion of the dirty sector in production falls, the …
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, these results have important implications for marriage rates, fertility, housing markets and financial markets …
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the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …
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