Flexible Working Arrangements and Fertility Intentions: A Survey Experiment in Singapore.

ABSTRACT: This study examines how young, unmarried, working people's fertility intention is shaped by future scenarios where flexible working arrangements (FWAs) are the default. The unmarried population remains to be an under-studied part of the working population at reproductive ages, who nevertheless becomes increasingly significant for fertility research due to rising ages at marriage and the first birth. Despite significant public anticipation regarding the potential of FWAs to facilitate work-family balance and fertility, there is little research on the effects of FWAs on fertility intentions. We conduct a population-based vignette survey experiment to identify the causal effects of FWAs by randomly manipulating three scenarios of FWAs policy changes-reducing hours, increasing work-schedule fl

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11582245 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature