Are generous cash handouts the answer to low fertility?
There is some evidence that generous cash subsidies to new parents have lifted the fertility rate in Korea. But it is not clear whether similar policies would have the same impact in countries where the costs of raising children are less extreme than in Korea, and where fertility rates have not dropped so low.
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