The impact of gender equality on fertility

Yana Borisenko ()
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Yana Borisenko: Department of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

No 38, Working Papers from Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics

Abstract: The global fertility decline and the complex system of factors of fertility changes arouse interest in the study of these factors in countries at different stages of demographic transition. In previous studies on the determinants of fertility, a contradictory result was obtained about the relationship between gender equality and fertility. This paper examines the impact of gender equality on fertility levels in countries with a completed demographic transition (using the example of OECD countries). Data from the World Bank, the International Labour Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for the period 2000-2018 are used. Based on the statistical analysis, an inverted J-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility rate at the country level was revealed: high and low levels of gender equality development correspond to high fertility levels. The results of the econometric analysis for developed countries have shown a positive impact of equality between men and women in all spheres on fertility.

Keywords: fertility; gender equality; determinants of fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2022-02
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