During recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the explanatory power of demographic variables in economic growth regressions. We estimate a new model of the effects of age structure change on economic growth. We use the new model and recent probabilistic demographic projections...

Recent literature finds that in OECD countries the cross-country correlation between the total fertility rate and the female labor force participation rate, which until the beginning of the 1980s had a negative value, has since acquired a positive value. This result is (explicitly or implicitly)...

The present article presents empirical evidence that the size of public pensions is insignificant for differences in birth rates between Western European countries. This implies that false incentives provided by pension entitlements independent of the number of children do not lead to any...