WHY MATERNAL CAPITAL DOESN’T WORK
N.I. Ovechkina
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Keywords: maternity capital, birth rate, population reproduction, demographic policy, reproductive behavior
Abstract
In Russia, in 2007, the Concept of Demographic Policy for the period up to 2025 was developed and approved. One of the key tasks is to increase the birth rate of the population. The measures taken to stimulate the birth rate of the second and subsequent children in the family do not bring the desired result. By 2019, the birth rate in the country again fell to the «pre-reform» level. The article is devoted to the description of the main theories that explain the current situation with the birth rate not only in Russia, but also in the world as a whole: A. Smith’s feedback paradox, the theory of social capillarity by A. Dumont, Caldwell’s theory of flows of goods. The concept of reproductive behavior is considered.
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