provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for … fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 … in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …

countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …

The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …

Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …