temporarily or permanently affect fertility in small open economies. This article tests the Becker-Barro model with relevant data … that government subsidies for having children have a strong positive effect on fertility, while the provision of public … is only weak support for the hypothesis that real interest rates positively influence fertility. …

Investigating the effects of population aging on fertility and economic growth, we show that an increase in life … expectancy lowers the fertility rate and raises life-cycle savings, and that a pay-as-you-go social security does not reverse the … effect on fertility. …

, additionally, expect children to support them in old age, this paper explores the interrelation between growth, fertility, and the … growth, but further increases in public pensions eventually reduce it. Fertility, on the other hand, falls by an increase in … public pensions if they are either small or large. Medium sized public pensions, however, may stimulate fertility. …

fertility. It is shown that for both structural determinants there exists no interior solution of the problem of …