. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. …In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a …

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on a survey of household attitude and behaviour relating to fertility in urban areas and … rural areas in Nigeria - studies the effect of economic conditions, income level education of women, labour force … participation of woman workers, cultural factors, children mortality, etc. On reproduction and family planning, and discusses …

friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …

Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively …

crucially on the assumption that no parents are better than others in raising their children and that fertility can be perfectly …In overlapping generations models with endogenous fertility wherein the retired partake of consumption but do not … contribute to production (through their labor), fertility has a positive and a negative externality. These can be internalized …

children. For reasonable parameter values of the tax rate, labour income taxation will reduce capital accumulation and cause a … market and non-market activities. The introduction of a tax on labour or capital income induces people to divert from market … production to home production. Furthermore, children are often used as an input into home production. In this situation, a higher …

dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show … that social security taxes and benefits generate incentives to reduce both family formation and fertility, and that these … measures account for a non-trivial part of the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, especially in OECD …

care and education policy goals. It is believed that young children, their families, and the community at large will … illustrate interconnections in our society. …