Key issues in the effectiveness of public financial tools to support childbearing the example of Hungary during the COVID-19 crisis.
PLoS One
; 17(8): e0273090, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1993513
ABSTRACT
The propensity to have children, which, according to the view accepted in the literature, is a good predictor of actual childbearing, is of particular importance in countries with low fertility rates and economic prosperity. In this paper, we report the results of a representative survey of 15,700 respondents in 2021 of university students in an emerging market economy in Central Europe, mapping their intentions to have children. The PLS-SEM data analysis method was used to test our hypotheses on the relationships between social, economic, and environmental variables of childbearing. Our results confirm the dominant role of socio-cultural inclusiveness in childbearing, over socio-economic and environmental-economic factors. The novelty of our research lies in the impact analysis of family policy incentives; however, our results are consistent with those documented in the literature, namely, the primacy of socio-cultural factors in the willingness of childbearing.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Family Planning Policy
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
PLoS One
Journal subject:
Science
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Medicine
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Journal.pone.0273090
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