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 …

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

Although family planning programs can improve women’s welfare directly through changes in realized fertility, they may …

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 …

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 …

earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their … analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high …

Heterogenität beobachtet werden. Deutschland, Spanien und Italien weisen deutlich niedrigere Geburtenraten auf als Frankreich, das …Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …

The present study reports on results emerging from the research project «Fertility and Prosperity: Links between … countries and (b) a survey of fertility outcomes and family policies in a limited number of developed countries. The results … indicate that the decline in fertility observed in the past, through its impact on the size and age-composition of the labour …

motherhood, respectively the 'universalistic' regime type that offers subsidized child-care and maternity-leave benefits to women … at all income levels, and the 'means-testing' regime type that offers predominantly income-tested benefits for single …-economic gradient of fertility timing has become increasingly mediated by family policy. They hypothesize and find increasing …