Contents

Country experiments

  1. France and the Nordic countries.
    1. Family benefits.
    2. Childcare systems.
    3. Work-family compatibility.
    4. Fertility trajectories over time.
  2. Hungary.
    1. Tax policy.
    2. Housing and lending incentives.
    3. Marriage incentives.
    4. Fertility and marriage outcomes.
  3. South Korea.
    1. Scale of public spending.
    2. Housing and education pressures.
    3. Workplace culture.
    4. Lessons from persistent ultra-low fertility.
  4. Japan.
    1. Childcare.
    2. Work reform.
    3. Marriage decline.
    4. Regional depopulation.
  5. China.
    1. The one-child era.
    2. The two- and three-child transitions.
    3. Pronatalist policy.
    4. The legacy of decades of fertility restriction.