An econometric analysis of the effects of family benefit policies on fertility, saving and labour force participation in Australia.

该项目将通过提高我们对家庭福利政策对生育率、储蓄和劳动力参与的影响的理解，帮助“加强澳大利亚的经济结构”。这一点很重要，因为提高生育率和劳动力参与率都被视为减轻人口老龄化带来的经济负担的方法，从而帮助澳大利亚在全国范围内“健康地老龄化，富有成效地老龄化”。此外，达到理想的国民储蓄水平是政府经济政策的中期目标。因此，重要的是要了解储蓄、生育率和劳动力参与之间的相互作用，以便制定相容和有效的经济政策。

This project will help to 'strengthen Australia's economic fabric' by improving our understanding of the effect of family benefit policies on fertility, saving and labour force participation. This is important because boosting fertility and labour force participation are both seen as ways of mitigating the economic burden of population ageing, thereby helping Australia to 'age well, age productively' in a national sense. Also, achieving a desired level of national saving is a medium term goal of government economic policy. Hence it is important to understand the interaction of saving, fertility and labour force participation in order to develop compatible and effective economic policies.