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Pensions with Endogenous and Stochastic Fertility

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  • Cremer, Helmuth
  • Gahvari, Firouz
  • Pestieau, Pierre

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This paper studies the design of a pay-as-you-go social security system in a society where fertility is in part stochastic and in part determined through capital investment. If parents' investments in children are publicly observable, pension benefits must be linked positively to the the level of investment, and payroll taxes negatively to the number of children. The outcome is characterized by full insurance with all parents, regardless of their number of children, enjoying identical consumption levels. Without observability, benefits must increase, and payroll taxes decrease, with the number of children. The second-best level of investment in children, and the resulting average fertility rate, are less than their corresponding first-best levels.

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Paper provided by University of Toulouse 1 Capitole in its series Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole with number http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr/662/.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Public Economics (2006) v.90, p.2303-2321
Handle: RePEc:ner:toulou:http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr/662/

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