Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2014
Abstract
This chapter considers the impact of existing incentives and policies to encourage marriage and child-birth, and other direct and indirect ways to raise the total fertility rate (TFR).
Keywords
Human fertility, Government policy, child bearing, marriage, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Economic Policy | Family, Life Course, and Society | Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Public Economics
Research Areas
Macroeconomics
Publication
Population Outcomes: Singapore 2050
Editor
Yap Mui Teng & Christopher Kok Aun Gee
First Page
118
Last Page
135
Publisher
Institute of Policy Studies
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
HO, Kong Weng.
Marriage and Child Bearing. (2014). Population Outcomes: Singapore 2050. 118-135.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1666
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
http://lkyspp2.nus.edu.sg/ips/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/POS2050_Web_Final_3009141.pdf
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Asian Studies Commons, Economic Policy Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Public Economics Commons