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We study the joint determination of fertility subsidies and Social Security taxes in an overlapping generations model where agents are heterogeneous in endowments. In equilibria where Social Security is valued, old and poor young agents form a coalition that sustains Social Security. When voting for fertility subsidies, the young take into account both the deadweight loss of such subsidies and the gains from a higher future tax base. They also take into account a third effect of increasing population growth: that of a decrease in future Social Security benefits as a consequence of a change in the identity of the future decisive voter.

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Paper provided by Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University in its series CAMA Working Papers with number 2007-06.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2007
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Handle: RePEc:een:camaaa:2007-06

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• E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
• H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
• H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
• H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
• J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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