heterogeneous and homogeneous preferences derivedfrom household models. Our results indicate that couples bargain over fertility …

The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at … respondent's mass attendance when the respondent was a child (nine levels); Catholic education during childhood (yes/no). The …

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

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 …