"Policies that raise [women's] lifetime earnings lower fertility, while those that boost fertility reduce lifetime earnings."
"The increase in [female] non-employment raises fertility. With fewer job prospects, non-employed women have more incentives to have children."
The paper finds that among all studied fertility-boosting policies, only promotion subsidies improve both fertility and earnings, recommending this as a solution.
In reality, this means taking money from men (women don't pay taxes) to overpromote women at the cost of men competing within the same companies.
Source: Guner (2025), Family-Friendly Policies and Fertility
https://doi.org/10.53479/41858
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"The increase in [female] non-employment raises fertility. With fewer job prospects, non-employed women have more incentives to have children."
The paper finds that among all studied fertility-boosting policies, only promotion subsidies improve both fertility and earnings, recommending this as a solution.
In reality, this means taking money from men (women don't pay taxes) to overpromote women at the cost of men competing within the same companies.
Source: Guner (2025), Family-Friendly Policies and Fertility
https://doi.org/10.53479/41858
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Women make a net-negative lifetime economic contribution.
Source: Aziz (2014), The Distribution of Income and Fiscal Incidence by Age and Gender
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2375926
Source: Aziz (2014), The Distribution of Income and Fiscal Incidence by Age and Gender
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2375926
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"Policies that raise [women's] lifetime earnings lower fertility, while those that boost fertility reduce lifetime earnings." "The increase in [female] non-employment raises fertility. With fewer job prospects, non-employed women have more incentives to have…
Women make a net-negative lifetime economic contribution, but they contribute more than they consume in terms of "unpaid labor" (housework, caring for children, etc., valued at market wages in this paper).
In reality, they are already compensated for this "unpaid" labor via their husbands' financial support.
Rather than forcibly taking money from men collectively, which impedes their individual abilities to subsidize their own wives, we should abolish collective wealth transfers from men to women entirely. This would enable us to reduce taxes significantly.
Source: Hammer (2019), The gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in Europe (Data from 15 European countries)
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/PDF/Publications/Working_Papers/WP2019_07.pdf
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In reality, they are already compensated for this "unpaid" labor via their husbands' financial support.
Rather than forcibly taking money from men collectively, which impedes their individual abilities to subsidize their own wives, we should abolish collective wealth transfers from men to women entirely. This would enable us to reduce taxes significantly.
Source: Hammer (2019), The gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in Europe (Data from 15 European countries)
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Institute/VID/PDF/Publications/Working_Papers/WP2019_07.pdf
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The wealthier and more educated a woman is, the more she desires a man who out-earns her. This is why so many girlbosses turn into catladies.
See also: "When choosing a long-term mate, men value looks (fertility and genetic health) slightly more than women, while women value wealth and status (ability to provide and protect) significantly more than men."
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See also: "When choosing a long-term mate, men value looks (fertility and genetic health) slightly more than women, while women value wealth and status (ability to provide and protect) significantly more than men."
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The Baby Boom demonstrates that a reduction in women's wealth/status relative to men's results in higher fertility.
The TFR increase (which raised net-fertility to the same level as the mid-19th century) was not caused by people pumping out 10 kids each, but by a significant increase in marriage, especially among the young.
This was driven by an increase in young men's wealth/status relative to that of young women. The relative part is important: Women don't want to be poor and low status, they just want men to be wealthier and higher status than themselves; this is true even for wealthy / high status women.
The Baby Boom was brought to an abrupt end by feminism and the Sexual Revolution making marriage a bad deal for men (no-fault divorce, female promiscuity, etc.), plus a systemic effort to increase women's wealth/status relative to men's, including wealth transfers from men to women.
(Credit to Arctotherium for conducting this research, I was looking into the topic and found his article).
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The TFR increase (which raised net-fertility to the same level as the mid-19th century) was not caused by people pumping out 10 kids each, but by a significant increase in marriage, especially among the young.
This was driven by an increase in young men's wealth/status relative to that of young women. The relative part is important: Women don't want to be poor and low status, they just want men to be wealthier and higher status than themselves; this is true even for wealthy / high status women.
The Baby Boom was brought to an abrupt end by feminism and the Sexual Revolution making marriage a bad deal for men (no-fault divorce, female promiscuity, etc.), plus a systemic effort to increase women's wealth/status relative to men's, including wealth transfers from men to women.
(Credit to Arctotherium for conducting this research, I was looking into the topic and found his article).
#fertility