fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from … the final effects to the assumed target value and path of increased fertility. Since our study tries to quantify the … fiscal effects depend on the patterns of increased fertility. …

Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from … the final effects to the assumed target value and path of increased fertility. Since our study tries to quantify the … fiscal effects depend on the patterns of increased fertility. …

fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …