exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect …

Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly … to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until they get a son. Insurance through sons entails substantial … health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …

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

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 …

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 …