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Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation

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  • LEROUX Marie-Louise,

    (Université du Québec à Montréal and CORE)

  • PESTIEAU Pierre,

    (Université de Liège, CORE and PSE)

  • PONTHIERE Gregory,

    (Université Paris Est, PSE and IUF)

Abstract

We study the design of a fair family policy in an economy where parent-hood is regarded either as desirable or as undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we rst show that the identi cation of the worst-o¤ individuals is not robust to how the social evaluator xes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion, which gives priority to the worst o¤ in realized terms, we then examine the compensation for involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Unlike real-world family policies, a fair family policy does not always involve positive family allowances to (voluntary) parents, and may also, under some reference fertility lev-els, involve positive childlessness allowances. Our results are robust to assuming asymmetric information and to introducing Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

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  • LEROUX Marie-Louise, & PESTIEAU Pierre, & PONTHIERE Gregory,, 2019. "Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2019024, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvco:2019024
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    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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