Policy Experiment in Russia: Cash-for-Babies and Fertility Change

Population decline in modern day Russia is alarmingly steep: Russia loses approximately 750 thousand people each year. To combat population decline, the Russian government instituted aggressive pro-natalist policies. The paper evaluates the capacity of new policies to change women's reproductiv...

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Published in:Social politics 2011-10, Vol.18 (3), p.361-386
Main Author: Avdeyeva, Olga A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior Modification
Birth Rate - ethnology
Demography - economics
Demography - history
Economic change
Experiments
Family
Family Planning Policy - economics
Family Planning Policy - history
Family Planning Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Family policy
Females
Fertility
Financial incentives
Gender
Government Programs - economics
Government Programs - education
Government Programs - history
Government Programs - legislation & jurisprudence
Hierarchy
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Interaction
Labor Market
Labour market
Population decline
Population Dynamics - history
Population Policy
Reproductive Behavior - ethnology
Reproductive Behavior - history
Reproductive Behavior - physiology
Reproductive Behavior - psychology
Russia
Russia - ethnology
Russian Federation
Social policy
Socioeconomic development
Women
Women's Health - ethnology
Women's Health - history
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Summary:Population decline in modern day Russia is alarmingly steep: Russia loses approximately 750 thousand people each year. To combat population decline, the Russian government instituted aggressive pro-natalist policies. The paper evaluates the capacity of new policies to change women's reproductive behavior using a socio-institutionalist theoretical framework, which analyzes the gendered interaction between the states, the labor market, and family. The paper arrives to a disappointing conclusion that while efforts to improve fertility are quite aggressive, new policies do not challenge gendered hierarchies neither in public nor in private spheres, which will further depress fertility rates of Russian women.
ISSN:1072-4745
1468-2893
DOI:10.1093/sp/jxr013