Higher fertility slowly increases the workers-to-retirees ratio over the long run, which can ease the pension financing …-productivity profiles and pension systems can explain the exception. Fertility-promoting policies will always ease the public finance …

This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using … data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in Norway, but women …'s fertility response to the pandemic may differ depending on their life situation. We use the first lockdown on March 12, 2020 as …

We assess the impact of continued low fertility in China, versus a rebound in fertility due to the relaxation of the …), income per capita is lower with a fertility rebound due primarily to a higher youth dependency rate. In the long run, higher … fertility leads to a reduction in the old-age dependency ratio and lowers the tax rate required to pay for old-age pensions and …

.S. data and validating it with quasi-experimental evidence, I find that raising aggregate fertility to the replacement level …. The key to this result is that the marginal cost of child quality rises with fertility, and fertility effects of the … rewards, in-kind benefits are less cost-effective in raising fertility but have other advantages: subsidized childcare …

This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate … the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock … negative and significant effect on the total fertility rate. Looking at the entire spectrum of the fertility distribution, the …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …