overlapping-generations model of endogenous fertility with heterogeneous agents. The model places particular emphasis on the time … having children and hence sow the seeds of its own destruction. The model is then extended to allow for fertility … number of OECD countries that have generous DBPAYG pension systems and falling fertility rates. …

heterogeneity of rearing costs and of enjoying children is introduced. Two major results: (i) excluding negative savings, fertility … decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may … strengthen heterogeneity in fertility. …

This paper analyses the eeffects of ageing and child support in a model with endogenous fertility and Pay …-As-You-Go (PAYG) pensions. First, we show that the endogeneity of fertility makes society vulnerable to both pessimistic beliefs and … changes in life expectancy. In particular, we show that the private fertility choice may not coincide with the social optimum …

A two-stage bargaining model is developed to describe how fertility decisions are made in a strategic family setting … investments in children (i.e. the fertility rate) may be sub-optimal. This is because the woman may find it in her interest to … in the context of this model the impact on fertility rates of changes in child custody rules (in the case of divorce …

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 …