{"id":13653,"date":"2024-05-14T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13653"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:27:47","slug":"awkward-truth-subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13653","title":{"rendered":"Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women\u2019s Work Drives Down Birthrates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/su.figshare.com\/articles\/preprint\/How_Cash_Incentives_Can_Affect_Childbearing_Among_Low-Income_Women\/25602975\/1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A new study out of Finland<\/a>&nbsp;reaffirms this general rule in a very specific way. The Finnish government randomly awarded work subsidies to men and women. The finding is a bit awkward in these days of gender equity: If you subsidize work for men, birthrates go up. If you subsidize work for women, birthrates go down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-american-enterprise-institute-aei wp-block-embed-american-enterprise-institute-aei\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YOJpFJHVmA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/op-eds\/awkward-truth-subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates\/\">Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women\u2019s Work Drives Down Birthrates<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women\u2019s Work Drives Down Birthrates&#8221; &#8212; American Enterprise Institute - AEI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/op-eds\/awkward-truth-subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates\/embed\/#?secret=6FaKR6pqAp#?secret=YOJpFJHVmA\" data-secret=\"YOJpFJHVmA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A new study out of Finland reaffirms this general rule in a very specific way. The Finnish government randomly awarded work subsidies to men and women. The finding is a bit awkward in these days of gender equity: If you subsidize work for men, birthrates go up. If you subsidize work for women, birthrates go down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.aei.org\/op-eds\/awkward-truth-subsidizing-womens-work-drives-down-birthrates\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1959,625,626],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-birth-rate","tag-births","tag-demographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13654,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}