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Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth

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  • Mikhail Golosov
  • Larry E. Jones

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In this paper, we generalize the notion of Pareto-efficiency to make it applicable to environments with endogenous populations. Two different efficiency concepts are proposed, P-efficiency and A-efficiency. The two concepts differ in how they treat people that are not born. We show how these concepts relate to the notion of Pareto efficiency when fertility is exogenous. We then prove versions of the first welfare theorem assuming that decision making is efficient within the dynasty. Finally, we give two sets of sufficient conditions for non-cooperative equilibria of family decision problems to be efficient. These include the Barro and Becker model as a special case

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2004 Meeting Papers with number 8.

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Keywords: Pareto efficiency; endogenous fertility; first welfare theorem;

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