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Title: Essays in Education, Fertility, and the Welfare State

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: In countries in the developed world, income inequality is increasing, while tech­nological and societal changes open labour market opportunities for women. At the same time they are undergoing an important demographical transition with decreasing fertility and increasing population ageing. All these trends affect the decisions that different generations make over the life-cycle. In this thesis, I inves­tigate the role that these trends play for education, fertility, and pensions using overlapping generations models. This type of economic models allow us to inves­tigate the decisions of economic agents along the life cycle taking into account the interaction with other generations. The structure of this thesis will follow the life-cycle of an economic agent: In the second chapter I investigate how income inequality is affecting the educational de­cisions of young agents and their social mobility. In the third chapter, I investigate the decision of couples to have children and educate them and how this decision is affected by changes in the gender wage gap. In the forth chapter, I investigate how in an economy with a pay-as-you-go pensions system the intragenerational con­flict between rich and poor as well as the intergenerational conflict between old and young about the allocation of public resources into education and pensions are affected by income inequality and population ageing. The research that I con­duct in this thesis aims at contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms at play...

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Authors: Poitiers, Niclas, F

Institution: University de Barcelona

Department: Economics

Advisor: Xavier Raurich and Concepció Patxot

Degree: PhD

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Pages: 137

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: United States