Over the past several years, there has been a robust debate over the best way to reduce child poverty in the U.S. One point of view believes that poverty is fundamentally a problem of limited income; therefore, the best way to reduce poverty is to redistribute income through government programs. The other point of view suggests that, while limited income is certainly a defining feature, poverty is the product of other problems, such as inadequate education, family structure, and detachment from the labor force.
As fertility rates have declined in high-income countries, the cross-country relationship between women’s labour supply and fertility has reversed. Today, in countries where more women are working, more babies are born. This column suggests that classic models of fertility no longer explain ultra-low fertility rates in high-income countries, where the compatibility of women’s
Living through the COVID-19 crisis affected women and men differently. This column presents representative survey evidence from five European countries that women reduced their pre-pandemic consumption substantially more than men. Perceptions of infection risk and precautionary saving motives are only a partial explanation. Instead, men report realising that they had not
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