Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply decisions. We quantify and compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing the effect of child births on parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet. This study is based on EUSILC...

Depuis la mise en place de la Stratégie Européenne pour l'Emploi (SEE), l'Union européenne fixe des objectifs et définit des indicateurs destinés à développer un benchmarking des politiques sociales. Bien que la politique familiale ne soit pas un domaine d'intervention explicitement...

This paper discusses results of the global survey of experts on the future of low fertility in low-fertility countries. The survey was coordinated by the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital as a part of an effort to produce global argumentbased population projections by...