There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among quot;comparablequot; households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice … model of female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …

direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. -- Population ; fertility ; incentives ; benefits …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. -- Population ; fertility ; incentives ; benefits …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

Economic theory suggests that incentives matter for people's decisions. This paper investigates whether this also holds … government changed its parental benefit system January 1, 2007. The policy change strongly increased economic incentives for … women to postpone delivery to the new year provided that they were employed. The incentives for women not employed were not …

was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … benefits to estimate the impact of the reform. I incorporated the mother’s decision to substitute her care time with the public … participation during the first year of leave and an increase in employment probability after the benefits expired. The empirical …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex …-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing … with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …

long-term growth and fiscal sustainability, Armenia introduced financial incentives to promote fertility. This paper … doubled, the total fertility rate reduced by more than 30 percent, and the male-to-female sex ratio at birth increased to one … of the world’s highest. Like other middle-income countries concerned with the implications of an aging population for …

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation …