It was previously a well-known idea that more women joining the workforce would mean that they would have fewer children. But new research helps to explain a striking reversal of this trend in rich countries. Learn more:
known that fertility rates have declined as women’s labour-force participation has increased. Handling a career as well as juggling childcare appeared to leave little room for big families. But new research now helps to explain a striking reversal of that trend in rich countries: higher female participation rates are associated with more babies.
A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that the reversal was driven by both cultural and policy changes. In countries such as America and Norway it became economically and socially easier to hold down a job and be a mother. As a result, the birth rate increased. But in places where the two remained in conflict, for example in Italy and Spain, women still worked less and had fewer babies .
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