Comprehensive analyses of fertility trends in the Russian Federation during the past half century

Tomas Frejka and Sergei Zakharov
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Tomas Frejka: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2012-027, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: The transformation of traditional childbearing patterns of early family formation to later family formation characterized recent fertility trends in Russia. These were intrinsically interwoven with fundamental changes in all aspects of life of young people in the 1990s and the 2000s. The past quarter century was also marked by concern with low fertility and attempts to increase fertility in the early 1980s and the late 2000s. The family policies of the 1980s failed to raise fertility. Preliminary analyses indicate that the fate of the 2007 policies could be similar. In both cases the main emphasis was on material birth and child benefits, parental leaves and child care. Presumably insufficient attention was devoted to improving living conditions of young people and promoting gender equality. Will government efforts to raise fertility during the 2010s be sufficiently effective to offset economic and social forces challenging childbearing? As of 2012 the outlook for a future fertility increase does not appear hopeful.

Keywords: Russian Federation; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2012-027

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