Parental Leave and Child Allowances: Attitudes, Preferences and Possible Impact*
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چکیده
Family policy is aimed at neutralising, or at least lessening, the negative impact of psychological, social and economic constraints for forming families and having the desired/greater number of children. Financial and other family policy measures reconcile the objectives of strengthening families, offering equal opportunities to men and women, and increasing the well-being of individuals and families. It is believed that family policy measures also have an indirect impact on fertility. According to Laroque and Salanié (2004:424), “it is natural for economists to presume the existence of a link between family transfers and fertility”. This is in line with the economic theory of fertility (Willis, 1973; Becker, Parental Leave and Child Allowances: Attitudes, Preferences and Possible Impact*
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