Social security and endogenous fertility: Pensions and child allowances as siamese twins

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-251

  Van Groezen, Bas ^a   Leers, Theo ^a   Meijdam, Lex ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Child allowances; Endogenous fertility; Overlapping generations; Pensions; Social security reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290178     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00134-7     Document Type: Article

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