transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

commitment to lifetime marriage. Wages in the model shift intra-family bargaining power and induce bargaining effects on outcomes … in addition to standard income and substitution effects. I estimate gender-specific preferences and how intra-family … improved women's bargaining power in the family resulting in a shift of household work to their husbands. It also contributed …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution … ; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution …

The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western …