-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children per woman born around 1970 and remain constant about 1.9 children per …, we assume that future behaviours will remain identical to the ones observed in 1995-1996, when fertility was quite low … estimated in 1996-1998, years of higher fertility. Results are found to be very consistent with the previous ones. …

are consistent with a fertility of 1.9 children per woman, which corresponds to the observed fertility since 2000, and an … average age at birth of 30 years. For women, simulations lead to satisfactory results for completed fertility, fertility rate …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents [Bourguignon (1999)] or has treated them as household public goods … [Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …