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POPULATION POLICY THROUGH TRADABLE PROCREATION ENTITLEMENTS *
Author(s) -
De La Croix David,
Gosseries Axel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.658
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1468-2354
pISSN - 0020-6598
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2009.00539.x
Subject(s) - overpopulation , population , george (robot) , economics , population control , meaning (existential) , political science , public economics , development economics , law and economics , sociology , family planning , demography , research methodology , history , psychology , psychotherapist , art history
One of the first tradable rights proposal is Boulding's ( The Meaning of the Twentieth Century , London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1964), dealing with overpopulation. We discuss both tradable procreation allowances and exemptions domestically and globally, to address underpopulation as well. We focus on three effects. Notably, the rights' tradability entails that whereas exemptions or expensive enough allowances benefit the poor, cheap allowances benefit the rich. A natalist policy also worsens the average education level of the next generation, whereas population control enhances it. Also, if procreation rights are grandfathered to countries, the scheme redistributes further. Our analysis suggests that procreation entitlements may be efficient in controlling population, without being necessarily anti‐redistributive.