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Can child allowances improve fertility in a gender discrimination economy?

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  • Ruiting Wang

    (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)

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This paper presents the e ects of child allowances on fertility, female labor supply, and economic growth in a gender wage discrimination economy. Child allowances cannot increase fertility in a higher gender discrimination economy. Both theoretical and empirical analyses prove this result. We find that child allowances can increase maternal childcare time. However, the expenditures on market childcare goods and services cannot increase with the decrease of female labor supply and total household income in a higher gender discrimination economy. When both the childcare time and market childcare goods and services are necessary inputs in the parental child care, an increase in child allowances can decrease fertility and per capita output. Moreover, in both the labor market and household, gender equality is critical for encouraging children-bearing. Child allowances can also increase fertility when males actively participate in child care.

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  • Ruiting Wang, 2020. "Can child allowances improve fertility in a gender discrimination economy?," KIER Working Papers 1021, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:kyo:wpaper:1021
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    Cited by:

    1. Wei, Xu & Zhou, Yi & Zhou, Yimin, 2022. "Signaling of earlier-born Children's endowments, intra-household allocation, and birth-order effects," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    2. Oliwia Komada, 2023. "Raising America's future: search for optimal child-related transfers," GRAPE Working Papers 84, GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics.

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    Keywords

    Child allowances; Gender Wage Discrimination; Female Time Allocation; Fertility; Economic Growth;
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    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household

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