A note on endogenous fertility, child allowances and poverty traps

Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori ()

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 3, 722-726

Abstract: This study analyses how capital accumulation and fertility react to a child allowance policy in an overlapping generations model of growth with endogenous fertility. Multiple equilibria are shown to exist depending on the size of the child allowance.

Keywords: Child allowance; Endogenous fertility; OLG model; Poverty trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 J13 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.091

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