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Human capital and pensions with endogenous fertility and retirement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2023

Giam Pietro Cipriani  and
Tamara Fioroni
Giam Pietro Cipriani
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Verona, Verona 37129, Italy IZA, Bonn, Germany
Tamara Fioroni*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Verona, Verona 37129, Italy
*
*Corresponding author. Email: tamara.fioroni@univr.it
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Abstract

We study an OLG model with child policies and a PAYG pension with endogenous retirement and fertility. The result of the planned economy is compared to the decentralized competitive equilibrium deriving optimal policies. We show that in the presence of a PAYG pension system, the optimal policy mix includes an education subsidy and a subsidy for the supply of labor in old age. Fertility should be taxed or incentivized depending on whether there is full or partial retirement, and on the parameters. We focus on the parameter reflecting the deterioration of human capital and show that a child tax may be required.

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PAYG pensionsendogenous fertilityendogenous retirementhuman capital

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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , March 2024 , pp. 478 - 494
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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