children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the … political economy research these effects have been ignored, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper … pension systems, because as the family structure becomes weaker the fertility decreases, thus reducing the profitability of …

general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility … mobility is high in China, a low fertility rate implies more future capital outflows. But if capital is less mobile, low … fertility today lowers the domestic return to capital and raises the domestic return to labor. In addition, the paper finds no …

effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system’s own contributory base, because it reduces …

Eine vergleichende Analyse der agrarsozialen Sicherungssysteme in Deutschland und Frankreich, die auch eine …

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in … data, to explore the impact of marital prospects on the fertility decisions of unmarried women. We find that the decline …

equilibrium response, in a life-cycle matching model, of marriage hazards to war-time fertility and male-mortality shocks. Our …