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

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。财政部《2002- 2003年代际报告》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。日益萎缩的劳动力的税收可能不得不支持越来越多的依赖老人。拟议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，这将通过增加年轻人与老年人的比例来减缓人口老龄化。

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.