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Family policies in developed countries: contrasting models

Population and Societies

448, September 2008

Fertility - the average number of children per woman - varies by a factor of two between developed countries. These differentials may be partly due to the existence, or otherwise, of family policies, and to differences in their scope. But what are developed countries’ family policies and what forms do they take? Olivier Thévenon describes existing policies using data from the OECD Family database.

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