1. Introduction -- 2. The evil of a premature death -- 3. An insurance against a short life -- 4. Reversing retirement … pension systems, by offering a period of retirement to all young adults before they start their career. Such a ‘reversed …

This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG … social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement … the retirement age. Finally, the model is simulated in order to study whether the policies devoted to realizing the social …