This paper proposes a strategic framework to account for fertility choices in polygamous households. A theoretical … model specifies the main drivers of fertility in the African context and describes how the fertility of one wife might … complements. One wife raises her fertility in response to an increase by the other wife, because children are the best claim to …

fertility of international migrants and of those who stay at origin. In order to disentangle selection effects determining … differential fertility behaviour of migrants, other mechanisms explaining migrant fertility (disruption, interrelation of events …) are also examined. Furthermore, we take into consideration the prevalence of polygamy in Senegal to enhance our knowledge …

, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

, the discipline must learn from the pandemic. The altruism it propagates has serious limitations that need reexamining. …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution … renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the old-age security" to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with old-age security" even for contemporary fertility. …

research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the main element explaining the increase in fertility rates, this paper …This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the … does not, since altruism seems irrelevant over this period. The relationship between parents and children is part of a …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical … treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …