fertility are almost similar; (2) childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both single and married; (3 …We develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number … involuntary childless-ness, and explain why (1) single women are more often childless than married women but, when mothers, their …

This paper contributes to the study of the relationship between religion and fertility. More speci cally, I investigate … the impact of being Catholic on fertility in France. Fertility is measured either by the number of children ever born or … by completed fertility. I show that women who are strong practicers have signi cantly more children than other women …

policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can …

egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …

impact. The women's education negatively influences fertility in the sense that the least educated women have more children … 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

examine how the cost structure of early and late children in terms of time and goods a¤ects the optimal fertility timing. Then …

egalitarian optimum involves a higher capital and a lower fertility than the utilitarian optimum. Those inequalities hold also in …