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egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …
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on individual fertility behaviors in France. Indeed, the French laws make it very difficult to collect data on the … significantly influences fertility. To have been raised in a religious family and to be a believer do not matter either. The … estimated fertility of a woman assisting offices every week is 24% higher that the expected fertility of a woman who never …
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equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies … explain differences in household decisions between countries. The solution shows a U-shaped relationship between fertility and … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …
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While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … intergenerational trade affect fertility and longevity. It is shown that the age structure must converge asymptotically towards a stable …
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We explore the optimal fertility age-pattern in a four-period OLG economy with physical capital accumulation. For that ….s Serendipity Theorem still holds. Finally, we study the dynamics and social optimum of an economy with interior fertility rates … during the reproduction period. It is shown that various fertility age-patterns are compatible with the social optimum, as …
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examine how the cost structure of early and late children in terms of time and goods a¤ects the optimal fertility timing. Then …
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egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …
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This paper re-examines the spaceship problem, i.e. the design of the optimal population under a fixed living space, by focusing on the dilemma between adding new beings and extending the life of existing beings. For that purpose, we characterize, under time-additive individual welfare depending...
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annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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