Identifying the most influential groups in determining Singapore's fertility (Record no. 40452)

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Personal name Chen, Mengni.
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Title Identifying the most influential groups in determining Singapore's fertility
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Statement of responsibility, etc Mengni Chen, Paul S. F. Yip and Mui Teng Yap.
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Extent pp. 139-160.
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Summary, etc In recent years, various pro-natalist policies have been adopted in Singapore and other high-income Asian countries with low fertility, aiming at raising fertility rates. Previous studies were mainly focused on the impact or outcome of the policies. This paper, however, aims to identify the most influential groups in determining Singapore's total fertility rate (TFR) and evaluate the targeting of pro-natalist measures adopted by the government. We first reveal the changing age-parity-and-marital-status composition of women at childbearing age, and further conduct an elasticity analysis to assess the roles of different subgroups of women in changing the TFR. Our results show that compared to other groups, the 20–29-year-old single women and the married childless women aged 30–34 (‘married’ throughout this paper includes women who are or have been married) are more influential in determining the TFR and should be the potential pro-natalist target groups. However, Singapore's pro-natalist policies are more in favour of third and higher-order births. Such mismatch indicates that, if more efforts are devoted to facilitating marriage and first births in these potential groups, the TFR may be increased effectively. In order to achieve a long-term and significant fertility reversal, it calls for a long-term and integrated policy package.
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Title Journal of Social Policy
Relationship information 2018, Vol. 47, Issue 1
International Standard Serial Number 1469-7823
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Uniform Resource Identifier https://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2078/10.1017/S0047279417000241
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