maximizes welfare across demographic groups depends on the fertility rate in the economy. Policies chosen when all demographic … excludes children from the electorate, when the fertility rate is low, and Pareto-reducing when the fertility rate is high … to retirees in the economy. Public investment in child care can change the fertility rate and shift the economy toward a …

Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female … incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …

This paper examines how women's fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth using six … cost of childbearing and that this will lower fertility, we find that an increase in the profits of female business …-owners in Ethiopia and Togo results in them having more children. We also observe a positive fertility response to increases in …

interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the … technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess … increase of enrollment in primary and secondary school is associated with a decline of the general fertility rate by 3 to 4 …

the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …