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social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … fertility and the elderly labor supply in the economy as a whole. It shows that governments can realize the first …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …
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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates – around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, fertility and pensions in a three … chosen. In the case of mandatory retirement, increasing longevity has an unambiguously negative impact on fertility and … decrease fertility less. Finally, the effects of the social security tax on capital per worker are negative with mandatory …
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We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing …
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We study an OLG model with child policies and a PAYG pension with endogenous retirement and fertility. The result of … of labor in old age. Fertility should be taxed or incentivized depending on whether there is full or partial retirement …
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This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil … age by 10% in the short-run. Completed fertility declines by 1.3 children within 20 years after the reform, reducing the … contribution base of the Pay-As-You-Go pension system in the long-run. The fertility response is strongest at higher birth parities …
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different ages (years) of working life. We examine the wage prospect of assuming medium, high, and low levels of fertility … by the fertility rates underlying many cohorts. Hence, economic advantages of being a small cohort depend on fertilities …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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