Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and … ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We … women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …