If men did more housework, would women have more babies? Cross-national fertility rates and the gender division of labour

如果男人多做家务，女人会生更多孩子吗？

• 批准号: DP0665337
• 负责人: Prof Jocelyn (Lyn) Craig
• 金额: $ 20.16万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2006-06-30 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0665337
• 关键词: men; did; more; housework; would

This project could contribute to the future well being of Australian society and its citizens by addressing the increasingly pressing social issue of fertility decline, and its consequence, population aging. The Treasury Intergenerational Report 2002-3 has identified structural aging of the population as a major social challenge because it threatens labour supply, social stability and economic growth. The taxes of a shrinking work force may have to support a mounting number of dependent elderly. The proposed research could identify practical social interventions to facilitate higher birth rates, which would slow population aging by increasing the ratio of young people to elderly.

该项目可以通过解决生育率下降及其后果人口老龄化这一日益紧迫的社会问题，为澳大利亚社会及其公民的未来福祉做出贡献。《2002- 2003年财政部代际报告》指出，人口结构性老龄化是一项重大的社会挑战，因为它威胁到劳动力供应、社会稳定和经济增长。不断减少的劳动力所带来的税收可能不得不用来养活越来越多的老人。拟议中的研究可以确定实际的社会干预措施，以促进更高的出生率，从而通过增加年轻人与老年人的比例来减缓人口老龄化。