Does family policy affect fertility?

By Anders Björklund. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Management Science and Operations Research

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Fertility trends by social status (2008, background): “However, during the last few recent decades in Belgium, Sweden, Germany and Japan, the fertility gap between high and low educated has not converged (Björklund 2006, Retherford et al. 2004).”
The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance (2010, background): “…sense that we estimate the fertility effect of having a longer leave period for the previous child and not the, potentially large, anticipatory effects of more generous fertility benefits (see Björklund, 2006, for an analysis of the overall effects of Swedish parental leave benefits on fertility).”
Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2008, unknown): “The number of children per woman in the different countries has converged over time and for those cohorts who have now completed their fertility, the number of children is close to the replacement level at 2.1 (Sleebos, 2003; Björklund, 2006).”
Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents (2015, unknown): “Björklund (2006) documents that such anticipatory effects appear to be substantial in Sweden.”
Family policy and fertility: fathers’ and mothers’ use of parental leave and continued childbearing in Norway and Sweden (2010, background): “Gender equality, parental leave and fertility In low fertility settings, policies that support gender equality are often regarded as having an impact on fertility (Björklund, 2006; Rønsen and Skrede, 2006; Andersson, 2008).”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “…effects to provide the reader with an intuitive understanding that the conclusions from reviewing the existing research literature must be viewed as tentative (also see Bjo¨rklund, 2006; Hoem, 2008), and we note that experimental designs have yet to be used in evaluating policy effectiveness.”