Child Allowances, Fertility, and Uncertain Lifetime

Megumi Mochida ()
Additional contact information
Megumi Mochida: Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University

No 05-11, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: We examine how child-allowance policies with pay-as-you-go systems affect fertility and growth rates. A current method to subsidize child-rearing households, which determines benefits according to family fs number of children, increases the fertility rate but decreases the growth rate. This study also demonstrates that when a government initiates a child-allowance policy using some part of the pension budget, the fertility rate declines in aging economies.

Keywords: Fertility; Social security; Uncertain lifetime. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 H55 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2005-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www2.econ.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/global/dp/0511.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:osk:wpaper:0511

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by The Economic Society of Osaka University ().