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Labour income taxation, child rearing policies and fertility

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  • Luca Gori

    (University of Pisa)

  • Luciano Fanti

    (University of Pisa)

Abstract

We examine how subsidy policies to support child-rearing affect the fertility rate in a textbook general equilibrium overlapping generations model extended to account for endogenous fertility decisions of individuals. It is shown the counter-intuitive result that increasing the child grant may actually reduce the long-run fertility rate.

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  • Luca Gori & Luciano Fanti, 2007. "Labour income taxation, child rearing policies and fertility," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 10(20), pages 1-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-07j10006
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    4. Wang, Leran, 2015. "Fertility and unemployment in a social security system," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 19-23.
    5. Luciano Fanti, 2012. "Child rearing subsidies and fertility in small open economies with life uncertainty," Discussion Papers 2012/148, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
    6. Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori, 2010. "Public Education, Fertility Incentives, Neoclassical Economic Growth And Welfare," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(1), pages 59-77, January.
    7. Luciano Fanti, 2012. "Fertility and money in an OLG model," Discussion Papers 2012/145, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
    8. Watanabe, Minoru & Miyake, Yusuke & Yasuoka, Masaya, 2018. "Unemployment, Income Growth and Social Security," MPRA Paper 86155, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Fanti, Luciano & Gori, Luca, 2011. "Child policy ineffectiveness in an overlapping generations small open economy with human capital accumulation and public education," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(1-2), pages 404-409, January.
    10. Wang, Leran, 2021. "Fertility, Imperfect Labor Market, and Notional Defined Contribution Pension," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 20(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue

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