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Social security and endogenous demographic change: child support and retirement policies
Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021
social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405524
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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of "tied" transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the "demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728981
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Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change : Child Support and Retirement Policies
Cipriani, Giam; Fioroni, Tamara - 2021
social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251539
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Demographic change in cities : Trends, challenges and insights from G7 economies
Burgalassi, David - 2024
Demographic change brings complex challenges to the economic, social, and environmental systems of cities, with its asymmetric, overlapping, and compounded impacts across people and places. This paper analyses the main demographic trends and challenges in cities across OECD countries, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567909
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Age, Demographics, and the Demand for Housing, Revisited
Green, Richard K. - 2015
The United States is aging, and many baby boomers are reaching or will soon reach the retirement age of sixty-five. On the other hand, the Millennials, the biggest generation in the U.S. history, has been experiencing the issues of rental affordability and uncertainty in housing market. Given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021587
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Planning for Change in Central St. Petersburg
Bater, James H.; Staples, John R. - 2003
Two Canadian scholars, the former a specialist on St. Petersburg?s evolution and urban fabric, explore linkages between population change, housing availability, and business development in central-city St. Petersburg during the late 1990s. These phenomena are viewed within the context of the St....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159108
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Girls not brides : evolution of child marriage in Pakistan
Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2020
Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389440
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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, … - 2010
population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809945
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Liu, Haoming - 2015
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430732
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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792218