Details

Subject(s)

• Fertility, Human—Economic aspects [Browse]
• Family policy—Economic aspects [Browse]
• Birth control—Government policy [Browse]

Editor

• Takayama, Noriyuki, 1946- [Browse]
• Werding, Martin [Browse]

Series

CESifo seminar series. [More in this series]

Summary note

Here, experts discuss the appropriateness and effectiveness using public policy to influence fertility decisions. The chapters show that it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of policy interventions such as child-care subsidies, support for women's labour-force participation, and tax incentives.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Fertility and Public Policy; 2 The Economics of the Family and Its Policy Implications; 3 Low Fertility and Population Aging in Germany and Japan; 4 Effects of Public Policies and Labor Market on the Fertility of Japanese Women; 5 On the Persistence of Low Birth Rates in Japan; 6 An Evaluation of a Pronatal Subsidy in Korea; 7 Fertility Transition and Its Socioeconomic Impacts in China; 8 Fertility and Social Policy; 9 Family Policies and Fertility in Sweden
• 10 Does Fertility Respond to Work and Family-life Reconciliation Policies in France?11 Given That People Live Longer, Why Should We Worry That Fewer Are Born?; Index

ISBN

• 0-262-29512-1
• 0-262-29565-2

OCLC

865565291

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