Archives

Free college tuition will be offered to at least one child in a family with three or more children, regardless of income, with all children being covered in some circumstances. [Yukana Inoue [...]

Not only are older workers increasing in number, but their earning power has grown in recent decades. [Richard Fry and Dana Braga – Pew Research Center, 14 December 2023.] READ MORE

DINKs (Dual income, no kids) aren’t shaping culture — it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies. [Alex Nowrasteh – [...]

The research provides profound insights into the challenges facing families and how they seek to overcome these challenges. [Mary Daly and Agathe Osinski – University of Oxford, November [...]

Low fertility threatens to undermine South Korea’s economic future by shrinking its workforce and slowing consumption. [Sam Kim – Time, 13 December 2023.] READ MORE

The cost of climate change for households in Europe.

This paper sketches the breadth and depth of child poverty and material deprivation in Austria today, and discusses the potential longer-run economic costs of childhood disadvantage once [...]

These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. [Anna North – Vox, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

Work/life integration has flexibility at its heart because it recognizes no formula for how employees balance life and work. [Scott Cawood – Forbes, 27 November 2023.] READ MORE

The issue only gained short-lived public attention as Public Health Minister declared increasing the fertility rate to be on the national agenda and drew criticism for blaming the decision of [...]