Chapter 1
Family policies in low fertility countries 1
(Vinod MISHRA, Chief, Policy Section, United Nations Population Division)
Chapter 2
Aging Italy: low fertility and societal rigidities 31
(Maria Letizia TANTURRI, Assistant Professor in Demography, Department of Statistical
Sciences, University of Padova)
Chapter 3
The policy context of fertility in Spain:
towards a gender-egalitarian model? 53
(Pau BAIZAN MUNOZ, Research Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences,
ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University)
Chapter 4
Population Aging in the UK: A Matter of Perspective 97
(Wendy SIGLE-RUSHTON, Professor, London School of Economics and
Political Science Gender Institute
Chapter 5
Fertiliy decline and lasting low fertility in a continuously changing(policy)
environment: a Hungarian case study 141
(Zsolt SP？DER, Director, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute)
Chapter 6
Population Aging, Below-replacement Fertility and Population Policies
since 1990 in Taiwan 199
(Melin LEE, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Asia University)
(Yu-Hsuan LIN, Senior Specialist, Health Promotion Administration,
Ministry of Health and Welfare)
Chapter 7
Low fertility in Austria and the Czech Republic: Gradual policy
adjustments 261
(Tom？？ SOBOKA, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis, IISA)
Chapter 8
The relatively high fertility in Norway: a result of affluence, liberal
values, gender-equality ideas, and the welfare state 353
(Øystein KRAVDAL, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo)
Chapter 9
Canadian Fertility Trends and Policies: A story of provincial variation423
(Sarah BRAUNER-OTTO, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University)
Chapter 10
The influence of family policies on fertility in France: lessons from the
past and prospects for the future 457
(Olivier TH？VENON, National Institute for Demographic Studies )
Chapter 11
Value of Women’s Work at Home and Intergenerational Resource
Allocation in South Korea 503
(Namhui HWANG, Fellow, Korea Institute for Health and Social Welfares)
(Sang-Hyup LEE, Professsor, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Chapter 12
Governmental support for families and obstacles to fertility 543
(Anne GAUTHIER, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute)