, additionally, expect children to support them in old age, this paper explores the interrelation between growth, fertility, and the … growth, but further increases in public pensions eventually reduce it. Fertility, on the other hand, falls by an increase in … public pensions if they are either small or large. Medium sized public pensions, however, may stimulate fertility. …

Investigating the effects of population aging on fertility and economic growth, we show that an increase in life … expectancy lowers the fertility rate and raises life-cycle savings, and that a pay-as-you-go social security does not reverse the … effect on fertility. …

temporarily or permanently affect fertility in small open economies. This article tests the Becker-Barro model with relevant data … that government subsidies for having children have a strong positive effect on fertility, while the provision of public … is only weak support for the hypothesis that real interest rates positively influence fertility. …

fertility. It is shown that for both structural determinants there exists no interior solution of the problem of …

This paper considers the implications of the financing of government services to children when fertility decisions are … biased away from the socially preferred result. The bias results in higher fertility rates and lower economic growth rates …

This paper provides empirical evidence on fertility determinants in Arab countries. Adopting a macro and micro … differentiated fertility and that female education mitigates high fertility. Child mortality and parent`s preferences for sons … positively affect fertility. By and large, demand for children is price and income inelastic. …

fertility is positive if child quantity is a closer complement than child quality to the consumption of goods. (ii) If, instead …, there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of …

Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …