https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-rules-out-baby-bonus-as-births-continue-to-slip-20240524-p5jg9p.html
In this month's budget, the current fertility rate was estimated at 1.64 and forecast to fall to 1.63 by 2027-28. Both are slightly lower than last year's budget forecasts. Life expectancies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxHxlevMGo
In the face of falling fertility levels, the Coalition has ruled out reintroducing the baby bonus to help new parents during the cost of living crisis.But di

https://10play.com.au/theproject/articles/coalition-rules-out-baby-bonus-despite-falling-fertility-rates/tpa240526jgmib
Coalition Rules Out Baby Bonus Despite Falling Fertility Rates 26 May 2024 Faced with a new-millennium baby drought, Peter Costello invited would-be Aussie parents to conceive on the Commonwealth's coin with an initial offering of $2,500, before it was upped to a $5,000 payment to reproduce.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/1d08tkm/angus_taylor_rules_out_baby_bonus_as_australian/
Natural population growth is 14 per cent lower than 2019, while the fertility rate is down almost 20 per cent since the global financial crisis in 2008. In this month's federal budget, the government slightly downgraded its assumptions on the fertility rate and life expectancy for both men and women after a jump in death rates to record

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-04/asia-spending-millions-to-reverse-declining-fertility-rates/103779994
As for Singapore, the government boosted its baby bonus scheme, giving out as much as S$10,000 ($11,200) in cash for first and second children. It increases to S$13,000 ($14,600) for your third

https://www.ft.com/content/838eeb4e-3bff-4693-990f-ff3446cac9b2
Korea's fertility rate has plummeted to 0.72, while in France, where parenting is much less hands-on, birth rates have held up well and now stand at 1.8. The second big factor is shifting

https://theconversation.com/what-the-baby-bonus-boost-looks-like-across-ten-years-81563
Fertility rates have fallen from 2.02 babies per woman in 2008 to 1.81 in 2015. At the same time, mortality rates have declined. All this means the proportion of people in Australia who are of

https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-babies-children
In the US, the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession, dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. Today, the average American woman has about 1.6 children, down from three in

https://theconversation.com/women-in-rich-countries-are-having-fewer-kids-or-none-at-all-whats-going-on-229185
But, in many countries, the fertility rate is less than replacement level. In the US and Australia the current fertility rate is 1.6. In the UK it is 1.4; in South Korea it is 0.68. So, a country

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/why-policies-boost-birth-rates-not-working-some-countries-world-population-day-united-nations-3621006
In the early 1970s, women had on average 4.5 children each, according to the UN. By 2015, total fertility for the world had dropped to below 2.5 children per woman.

https://www.deseret.com/2021/10/12/22700639/american-family-survey-finds-child-allowance-to-parents-could-boost-the-birth-rate-push-up-fertility/
Taxing the wealthy and child cash benefits. If Congress passed a permanent benefit of $3,600 a year per child, 52% favored offering it as a $300 monthly payment, while 18% favored an annual lump sum and 30% didn't have an opinion, according to the survey.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/health/fertility-rates-still-down-after-pandemic-rebound-dg/index.html
The overall fertility rate was 56.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15-44, holding relatively steady from the rate of 56.3 in 2021. After a sharp drop in 2020, birth rates rose in 2021 — the first

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2024/0329/Birthrates-are-tumbling-worldwide-forcing-hard-choices-on-societies
March 29, 2024. After a century in which the global population grew almost fourfold to 6.2 billion people, stoking fears of overpopulation, conflict, and ecological collapse, a turning point

https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/south-korea-firm-to-pay-workers-75000-bonus-per-baby-to-fix-falling-birth-rate-how-others-tackled-the-problem-19168641.htm
South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate. It continued its dramatic decline in 2023, as most women are concerned about their careers and the financial cost of raising children and have decided not to have babies at all or delay childbirth. ... South Korea firm to pay workers $75,000 bonus per baby to fix falling birth rate — a look

https://theconversation.com/the-baby-bonus-failed-to-increase-fertility-but-we-should-still-keep-it-4528
Australia's total fertility rate rose from 1.76 births per woman at the introduction of the baby bonus to 1.96 in 2008, before falling back to 1.89 in 2010.

https://www.concordcoalition.org/issue-brief/has-the-baby-boom-gone-bust/
Thus, women who turn 14 after 2021 will have the same birth rate at age 14 as women who turned 14 in 2021. Women who turn 49 after 2056 will have the same birth rate at age 49 as women who turned 49 in 2056. Ultimate birth rates between 14 and 49 are attained between 2021 and 2056, based on the formula above.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AusEcon/comments/i00y4z/would_a_baby_bonus_have_much_impact_on_fertility/
Some argue that there should be a big baby bonus, which I disagree with because immigration can achieve the same objective without high cost

https://www.concordcoalition.org/blogs/whats-up-with-falling-birth-rates/
What's Up with Falling Birth Rates? Last week the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released provisional birth data for 2020. (1) Most of the media coverage focused on the fact that the number of births (3.6 million) was the lowest since 1979, and the general fertility rate (the number of births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44), fell

https://impact.economist.com/perspectives/health/fertility-flux-confronting-declining-birth-rates
The total fertility rate (TFR)—the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime—has been steadily decreasing, and globally the largest 15 countries by GDP all have a fertility rate below 2.1, which is known as the "replacement rate". When the TFR is at the replacement rate, a population size will remain stable

https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2023/03/02/commentary-parenthood-incentives-singapore-cannot-keep-doing-more-of-the-same-without-knowing-whether-these-really-work/
He notes that fertility rates have continually declined to historical lows of 1.10 in 2020 despite the introduction of the marriage and parenthood package in 2001. Nonetheless, he argues that the policies would still have been effective if they had cushioned the fall in fertility rate.

https://ftp1.economics.smu.edu/WorkingPapers/2020/KIM/KIM-2020-10.pdf
been 3.0% lower than the observed total fertility rate in 2015, which corresponds to approximately 428,274 less children ever born by the 2015 female population. I provide further evidence that the increase in birth rates were driven by changes in the child-bearing decisions of parent(s) at the margin of having an additional child. I uncover

https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/declining-us-birthrate-another-reason-rein-federal-spending
The 3.605 million babies born in the U.S. in 2020 were 712,000 fewer babies than the 2007 peak in U.S. births. And that fertility rate of 1.64 marks a significant decline from rates of about 2.0

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/freeing-american-families
A recent study finds that " [extended‐ age car seat requirements] prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a reduction of