The present paper investigates a standard model of endogenous fertility when child survival to adulthood is uncertain. In this framework, I first show that facing the risk their children die before reaching adulthood, parents don’t always formulate a precautionary demand for children. Indeed,...

Macroeconomic policies are designed to reach real economic targets like: lower employment and inflation rate, increasing output, balance of payment equilibrium, and so on. There is no unique model to choose the appropriate policy in a real context. That depends on too many influence factors –...