In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was … saving in the form of pension contributions tends to displace intra-family transfers, rather than asset formation. However …

This paper analyses long-term effects of highly unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II on fertility … the number of men delayed women's first birth. However, the effects crucially depend on at what age fertility of women is …

Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …. Although these measures are mainly motivated by equity considerations, they will generally also have an impact on fertility. …

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of … inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of … two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing individuals to qualify for a pension by working and paying contributions …

and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of … inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of …

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect, which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of … inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The article outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up … of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing individuals to qualify for a pension by working and paying …