The impact of social policy on fertility: evidence from Switzerland

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  • Giuliano Bonoli
    Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Switzerland,

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<jats:p> Variation in fertility rates, across both countries and time, is sometimes explained with reference to specific types of social policies. In particular, the recent increase in fertility rates seen in some Nordic countries and in France has been ascribed to these countries' efficient child care systems. One major limitation of these studies is represented by the small number of cases (usually some 22 OECD countries) and the large number of potential determinants of fertility rates, which makes powerful multivariate analysis impossible. This article, while not solving the small-N-many-variables problem, provides additional independent evidence on which to test the hypotheses generated by international comparisons, by looking at variation in fertility rates within Switzerland. Switzerland is a federal country where subnational units (the cantons) enjoy almost total autonomy in matters of family policy and are experiencing very different levels of fertility. The analysis basically confirms the findings of previous studies, highlighting the importance of child care but also of the level of family benefits as determinants of fertility rates. </jats:p>

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