Can child allowances improve fertility in a gender discrimination economy?

Ruiting Wang ()
Additional contact information
Ruiting Wang: Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

No 1021, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Child allowances; Gender Wage Discrimination; Female Time Allocation; Fertility; Economic Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28pages
Date: 2020-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gen and nep-mac
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/DP/DP1021.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kyo:wpaper:1021

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Makoto Watanabe ().