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The fantasy that we can “print our way out of any problem” is strong because it’s so convenient and apparently so successful – at first. [Rick Ackerman – FXStreet, 4 April 2022.] READ MORE

The main impact of the policy has been to reduce incomes among larger families who are already living on a low income, and hence to increase child poverty. [Mary Reader, Jonathan Portes and Ruth [...]

Despite a slew of birth-targeting incentives that China has rolled out in recent years such as prolonged maternity leave, paternity leave and birth insurance, the policies and incentives have [...]

All the policies supporting motherhood will fail if the corporate culture is hostile. [Emma Jacobs – Financial Times, 26 February 2022.] READ MORE

Economic uncertainty means Russians are having fewer children. Paired with the country’s high mortality rate, the situation could soon degenerate into a full-fledged demographic crisis. [Evnegy [...]

Evidence on the relationship between fathers’ labor market outcomes and number of children. [Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Anna Matysiak – Feminist Economics, 20 January 2022.] READ MORE

Beijing and Shanghai have extended maternity leave for eligible females by an additional 30 days and introduced the right to “parental leave,” or extra days off per year, for eligible parents of [...]

Impact of the first federal paid maternity leave mandate in Switzerland on women’s employment and earnings around the birth of their first child and their subsequent fertility by exploiting [...]

“As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents”. [Henrietta Fore [...]

The pandemic “baby bust” could push 2021’s tally down even further; researchers have estimated that the coronavirus and its economic impact could lead to about 300,000 fewer births in the United [...]