(This is from Feb. 8th, in the New York Times - and I saw a letter to the editor yesterday, pointing out that many women just plain don't WANT that many kids - if ANY, since most of the burden typically falls on the mother. Also, that as women becomemore educated, birth rates inevitably fall.)
https://archive.is/9zIo5#selection-287.0-287.62of Hungarian babies, including allowing mothers of four or more children to be permanently exempt from paying taxes, a mortgage repayment plan for families with two or more children, a subsidy program for larger families buying seven-passenger cars and
By Jessica Grose.
Excerpt:
...In December, the political director for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tweeted, “women who become mothers before turning 30 will be exempt from paying personal income tax!” That’s on top of a raft of other initiatives meant to boost the number
...In her newsletter Sciubba notes that even with the extra benefits, while Hungary raised its fertility rate from 1.2 to 1.5, it still hasn’t boosted its fertility rate to anywhere near population replacement level. As she put it: The country merely“managed to raise its super low fertility to just regular ole low fertility.”
When Sciubba and I spoke, she said it almost seems that when a country falls below replacement level, no matter how many family-friendly policies are enacted, it can’t get back up again. “I think we need to learn a lot more about that, but that’sfascinating,” she said. The reason is probably a complicated mix of social and cultural forces that are unique to individual countries. But at its core, it seems to me that no amount of additional financial support would make a person want to be a
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And, from Jan. 30th:
https://archive.is/rtgDn
"The Alternative, Optimistic Story of Population Decline"
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