Fertility and Public Policies - Evidence from Norway and Finland
By M. Rønsen. 2004
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The relatively high and rising fertility rates of Nordic countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked a renewed research interest in the possible pronatalistic effects of generous family policy programs. Several studies have addressed this issue, but few have tried to model policy effects explicitly. The existing evidence so far is mainly from Sweden, where policy indicators have been incorporated in economic fertility models that also control for female wages. This paper complements previous Swedish analyses with evidence from Norway and Finland. The results corroborate earlier findings of a negative effect of female wages. There are also indications of a positive policy impact, as maternity leave extensions are estimated to raise birth rates, although mainly higher parity births and mainly in Finland.
Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research
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In Management Science and Operations Research
Citations in the corpus
- Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2008, unknown): “Rønsen (2004) found a statistically significant negative association.”
- Reproductive Behavior and Personality Traits of the Five Factor Model (2011, background): “The authors suggested that the Finnish social policies supporting the combination of career advancement and family formation (Ronsen, 2004; Vikat, 2004) may contribute to this association particularly in women.”
- The impact of family policies on fertility in industrialized countries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “No statistically significant impact of childcare characteristics (cost and availability) on fertility was however reported by Ronsen (2004) for Norway and Finland, by Hank and Kreyenfeld (2003) for Germany, and by Andersson et al. (2004) for Sweden.”
- Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “…policy are those aimed at improving work–family compatibility, which include maternity and paternity leave with or without salary-maintenance benefits (Rønsen, 2004; Datta Gupta et al ., 2008), the availability, acceptability, accessibility, quality and cost of child care (Rindfuss et al ., 2007),…”