undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …

the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …