In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …

the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415]. …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …

This paper first presents evidence to show that in recent years there has been a substantial fall in fertility among … connecting these two pieces of evidence, the paper argues that fertility is falling and child schooling is rising among … to be more severe on female children and on the first-born of either sex. Perhaps this is because when family size is …