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- Clara E. Piano (2022): Autocratic family policy
Families produce people. ... On the one hand, familial production benefits the autocrat by augmenting the future productivity of the labor force. On the other hand, familial production threatens the autocrat by drawing current resources and loyalty away from the collective. This paper presents a theory of autocratic family policy in which the deciding factor is how much present control over resources an autocrat is willing to forego for future control. I apply this theory to the Soviet Union, arguing that the somersault of Soviet family policies (1917–1944) was a response to this tradeoff under different conditions.
RePEc:kap:copoec:v:33:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s10602-021-09356-4 Save to MyIDEAS - Dominic Richardson & Esuna Dugarova & Daryl Higgins & Keiko Hirao & Despina Karamperidou & Zitha Mokomane & Mihaela Robila & UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti (2020): Families, Family Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals
This report explores how the role of families, and family policies from around the world, can contribute to meeting the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the key role that both families and family policies have in determining social progress, and the national and international focus on meeting the SDGs by 2030, the timing of the publication is opportune. The report summarizes reviews of evidence across six SDGs that cover poverty, health, education, gender equality, youth unemployment, and ending violence to highlight some important issues that policymakers might consider when making future policies work for families, and family policies work for the future. A key contribution of the work, given the broad scope of the SDG ambitions, has been to map how the successes of family-focused policies and programmes in one SDG have also been successful in contributing to positive outcomes in other goal areas.
RePEc:ucf:inorer:inorer1092 Save to MyIDEAS - Begoña Elizalde-San Miguel & Vicente Díaz Gandasegui & Maria T. Sanz García (2019): Family Policy Index: A Tool for Policy Makers to Increase the Effectiveness of Family Policies
This paper presents the Family Policy Index (XFPI), an analytical tool designed to measure and compare different models of countries’ provision of educational services, parental leave and economic transfers to support families with children aged 0–3 years. The objective of this index is twofold: from a scientific perspective, it aims at measuring and comparing the overall support families receive through public policies; it also serves advocacy purposes, since the index may offer guidance to policy makers on best practices and may also increase citizens’ awareness of the efforts each country is making to support families. The XFPI has been conceptualized following a gender equality principle, considering that policies must involve both mothers and fathers in the exercise of their equal responsibility as parents. The XFPI was measured for two countries, Spain and Norway, in the 1999–2014 period, to test its applicability to different real scenarios and models of Welfare State with different policies and intentions, in which responsibility for childcare falls on two different agents: the State in Norway, and the family in Spain. The results show the extremely low development of Spanish pre-educational services for children 0–3 and, simultaneously, the existing limitations of Norwegian family policies in respect of gender equality.
RePEc:spr:soinre:v:142:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s11205-018-1920-5 Save to MyIDEAS - Kemnitz, Alexander & Thum, Marcel (2013): Gender power, fertility, and family policy
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. ... By keeping fertility low, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to overcome the fertility bias.
RePEc:zbw:tuddps:0113 Save to MyIDEAS - Alexander Kemnitz & Marcel Thum (2012): Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses’ welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. ... By keeping fertility low, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to overcome the fertility bias.
RePEc:ces:ceswps:_3798 Save to MyIDEAS - Tomas Kögel (2006): Swedish Family Policy, Fertility and Female Wages
The literature explains this finding with Swedish family policies of high subsidies for bought-in child care and generous parental leave benefits that are calculated on the basis of a woman's prior wage income. Both policies would cause the substitution effect from an increase in female wages on fertility to be dominated by its income effect. This paper shows within an economic model that there are offsetting effects from Swedish family policy that cause the reduction in the magnitude of the substitution effect of female wages to be most likely rather small.
RePEc:lbo:lbowps:2006_7 Save to MyIDEAS - Trude Lappegård (2010): Family Policies and Fertility in Norway
We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different policies: parental leave, formal childcare, and the childcare cash benefit. ... Norwegian family policies are designed both to improve reconciliation of work and family and to improve childcare choices for parents. The analysis shows different patterns of work–family reconciliation and fertility choices among one-child couples and two-child couples. The parental leave policy is the most influential of the three policies on second-birth intensities, especially if parental leave is also taken by the father. ... This means that policies that promote paternal involvement in childcare and gender equality are positively associated with second births, while policies giving more general family support are positively associated with third births.
RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:26:y:2010:i:1:d:10.1007_s10680-009-9190-1 Save to MyIDEAS - Martin Bujard (2011): Family Policy And Demographic Effects: The Case Of Germany
In the last decade a remarkable modernisation of German family policy has been initiated. ... This paper outlines recent changes in German family policy with a special focus on institutional characteristics and regional heterogeneity. ... This paper underlines the role of the institutional context, the legitimation of family policies and the interaction of different policy measures. ... As such, studies on the impact of family policy are insufficient if they merely focus on short-term effects or a limited set of policy measures, and the unvarying TFR in Germany does not necessarily contradict the impact thesis. ... Both the time-lag thesis and the broader policy context have implications for future research on the nexus of family policy and fertility.
RePEc:nki:journl:v:54:y:2011:i:5:p:56-78 Save to MyIDEAS - Angela Luci-Greulich & Olivier Thévenon (2013): The Impact of Family Policies on Fertility Trends in Developed Countries
We examine how strongly fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy instruments on fertility, using macro panel data from 18 OECD countries that spans the years 1982–2007. Our results confirm that each instrument of the family policy package (paid leave, childcare services and financial transfers) has a positive influence on average, suggesting that the combination of these forms of support for working parents during their children’s early years is likely to facilitate parents’ choice to have children. Policy levers do not all have the same weight, however: in-cash benefits covering childhood after the year of childbirth and the provision of childcare services for children under age three have a larger potential influence on fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Moreover, we find that the influence of each policy measure varies across different family policy contexts.
RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:29:y:2013:i:4:d:10.1007_s10680-013-9295-4 Save to MyIDEAS - Eileen Trzcinski (2000): Family Policy in Germany: A Feminist Dilemma?
The paper provides a detailed description of different aspects of family policy in Germany, including descriptions of financial and employment supports for families in their caregiving role. Family policy in Germany provides strong financial and social support for children. Law and policy, however, are specifically formulated to encourage child rearing to take place in the home, with one of the parents focusing extensively on child rearing and family responsibilities.
RePEc:taf:femeco:v:6:y:2000:i:1:p:21-44 Save to MyIDEAS