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. …

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

Tertilt (Econometrica, 2007), to evaluate allocations in a general overlapping generations setting in which fertility choices … to finance their own consumption and fertility plans. If potential agents are identified by the dates in which they may …

incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …

) in Germany on fertility. I start with a brief discussion of the economic incentives of the reform and their potential … effects on fertility from a theoretical perspective. Then I refer to previous empirical studies that have examined these … have been able to identify causal effect, the evidence generally suggests positive fertility responses among high …