Stress, Child Care, and Fertility

Kazumasa Oguro and Masaya Yasuoka

No 153, Discussion Paper Series from School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract: In economically developed countries, an aging society with fewer children is progressing. Especially, Japan’s aging society is rapidly progressing. There, child care policies are actively provided to mitigate effects of the rapidly aging society. Child care services have increased. Female labor participation has also increased. As the empirical data show, female labor participation is positively correlated with fertility, as shown also by results from OECD countries. However, our analyses show that the fertility rate cannot always be raised by child care service improvement, although child care services can raise the female labor participation rate. Additionally, our analyses consider work balance and the fertility rate. A fixed working time for the father reduces female labor participation and increases child care time of the mother.

Keywords: Child care service; Endogenous fertility; Stress; Work life balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2017-01, Revised 2017-01
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