The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for …-reform pensions and differences in exposure across cohorts, we show that pensions substantially reduce fertility, especially in late … suggest that improving social protection for the elderly could go a long way in fostering fertility decline in Sub …

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … classes of workers, and because fertility in Germany in this period was still relatively high. Focusing on the state of … Prussia, we estimate differences-in-differences models that ask whether marriage and marital fertility reacted to the …

Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard … fertility overall only via its effects on the incentive to marry. The old age insurance by itself tended to reduce marriages … social insurance, the two effects cancelled each other and the aggregate effect on fertility was muted. …

contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … decrease fertility less. Finally, the effects of the social security tax on capital per worker are negative with mandatory …

sizeable portion of the downward trends in family formation and fertility around the world …