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This December has also seen a debate over whether and how to expand the child tax credit, and that debate has brought more attention to another one: Why have US birth rates been dropping? [Ramesh [...]

The historic decline in fertility will touch nearly every area of state budgets in the coming years. Some fiscal effects have already emerged, while others will be relatively minor or won’t be [...]

Results indicate the pattern of fertility polarization already seen in some low‐fertility countries: for the disadvantaged segment of the population, it is increasingly difficult to become [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic may have been the exogenous shock that Japan needed to make people and organizations realize the downsides of an inflexible work culture. [Hiroshi Ono – East Asia [...]

Receiving grandparental support has a positive and significant impact on women’s but not on men’s fertility intentions. Furthermore, this impact remains positive after controlling for women’s [...]

As China, India is struggling with the legacy of harsh population policies, and stricter population controls could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities. [Aprajita [...]

Even as Beijing pursues policies to boost its birth rate, the country’s aging population could present challenges in the form of labor-force shortages, increased health care expenditures, and [...]

Japan’s experience shows how difficult it is to restore fertility to the replacement level, especially when a country has a sizable population and a persistently low birth rate. [Noriko Tsuya [...]

While efforts to introduce a new federal paid family leave program continue to stall in Congress, the number of states that have introduced their own programs climbed to 11 last year. [Joshua [...]

A declining median age at first union in the former Soviet republics before and immediately after the transition from socialism balances the impact of increased union instability.  [Sunnee [...]