overlapping-generations model of endogenous fertility with heterogeneous agents. The model places particular emphasis on the time … having children and hence sow the seeds of its own destruction. The model is then extended to allow for fertility … number of OECD countries that have generous DBPAYG pension systems and falling fertility rates …

fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by …-age transfers. The effect of increases in government provided pensions on fertility in the Barro and Becker model is very small …, whereas the effect on fertility in the Boldrin and Jones model is sizeable and accounts for between 55 and 65% of the observed …

We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing …

fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one … them with old age transfers. The effect of increases in government provided pensions on fertility in the Barro and Becker … model is very small, and inconsistent with the empirical findings. The effect on fertility in the Boldrin and Jones model is …

In the last century, most countries have experienced both an increase in pension spending and a decline in fertility …. We argue that the interplay of pension generosity and development of capital markets is crucial to understand fertility … children, thus relaxing financial (saving) constraints and reducing fertility. We build a simple two-period OLG model to show …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as … part through education. In addition to the customary externality source associated with a change in average fertility rate … alone entails a higher fertility rate and a lower ratio of high- to low-ability children, as compared to using education …