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Fertility Intentions and Preferences: E®ects of Structural and Financial Incentives and Constraints in Austria

    Henriette Engelhardt

VID Working Papers, pp. 1-23, 2021/12/06

doi: 10.1553/0x003d0a98


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doi:10.1553/0x003d0a98

Abstract

Taking as a starting point the low period fertility rates in Austria, this paper ad-dresses the question to which extent the low period fertility rates in Austria can beaccounted for by e®ects of structural and ¯nancial measures. Using data from theAustrian Population Policy Acceptance Survey 2001 we analyse the e®ects of thesetwo publicly controversial discussed incentives on the desired total number of children,on wanting no (more) children, and on fertility aspirations under the implementationof certain public policies. Based on zero-in°ated Poisson models we ¯nd that onlystructural constraints have an e®ect on the desired number of children, while ¯nancialconstraints have no e®ect. Logistic regression results suggest that neither structural nor¯nancial factors a®ect the desire for wanting (more) children. Concerning the fertilityaspiration under the implementation of certain policy measures our results based onmatching methods indicate that both structural and ¯nancial incentives would have ane®ect on thinking about having a(nother) child, on deciding to have a(nother) child, aswell as on having the ¯rst/next child sooner. However, at parity zero ¯nancial incen-tives seemed to be more important, while at parity one especially structural incentivesare the driven force of fertility aspirations.

Published Online: 2021/12/06 18:29:13

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