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Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Abhandlungen des Demographischen Symposions des Instituts für Bevölkerungsforschung und Sozialpolitik 1995

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Gender power, fertility, and family policy : conference paper

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2013

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

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The growth drag of pollution : conference paper

Schäfer, Andreas - 2014 - This version: February 2014

level of fertility. In this context, economic inequality is not only decisive for human capital investments and the … emergence of differential fertility, but also for agents' exposure to environmental pollution because wealthier households live …

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Over-aging : are present human populations too old? ; conference paper

Stelter, Robert - 2014

OLG model, with endogenous fertility and longevity, the optimal age structure, identified by number-dampened total … exceeds the observed, especially due to a very low fertility. Introducing a preference for the population stock increases the …

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