Am 1. Januar 2007 trat in Deutschland das Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz in Kraft. Ein Ziel dieser Neuausrichtung der Familienpolitik ist die Erhöhung der Gesamtfertilitätsrate. Diese liegt in Westdeutschland seit den 1970er Jahren zwischen durchschnittlich 1,3 und 1,5 Kindern pro Frau...

We simulate a two-sectoral, three-period OLG-model with endogenous fertility and endogenous education. Parents receive utility from quantity and quality (education) of their offspring, generating a trade-off between the former and the latter. Since education governs efficiency in production,...

This paper intends to make a two-fold contribution to the literature. First, it studies a political economy model of family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on whether i) the parents control their fertility or not,...