scholarly journals Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap

10.3386/w9093 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Behavior ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Family Cap ◽  
The Family

The Future of the Family Cap: Fertility Effects 18 Years Post-Implementation

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Camasso ◽  
Radha Jagannathan
Keyword(s):  
Family Cap ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

Patterns of Money Management within Marriage

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Married Couple ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Money Flows ◽  
Marital Breakdown ◽  
Women's Earnings ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Tax Unit

ABSTRACTMuch social and economic policy is based upon units such as the tax unit or the household, and much of it makes certain assumptions about flows of resources within these units. This article focuses on the control and allocation of financial resources within households, drawing on work done in the past and on original material taken from a study of the problems of a group of women whose marriages had broken down because of violence. Concentrating on the household type which is composed of a married couple and their dependent children, the article outlines three broad types of allocation system – the whole wage system, the allowance system and the pooling system. It is suggested that there are links between the system of allocation within the family, the stage in the life cycle which the family has reached, the income level of the household, and the occupational, regional and ethnic culture within which the household is located. The article concludes by suggesting that a better knowledge of intra-household money flows would be relevant to discussion concerned with the distribution of poverty, the allocation of welfare benefits, and the contribution made by married women's earnings to family living standards, and that it would also contribute to a better understanding of marital tension and marital breakdown.

JACQUELINE PORTUGESE, Fertility Policy in Israel: The Politics of Religion, Gender, and Nation (Westport, Conn: Praeger Publications, 1998). Pp. 211.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
The Family ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gender And Nation ◽  
Large Repertoire

Scholars often acknowledge reproductive behavior as a core issue in Israeli politics but they seldom examine how public policies affect family size. Israel has designed no official government fertility program, but the country's leaders are nevertheless obsessed with Jewish natality. Israeli women are bombarded with regulations affecting access to contraceptives and abortion procedures and with all sorts of unsubtle massages about the importance of mothering as a factor in the state's continuing vitality and fulfilling its national purpose. Jacqueline Portugese explains Israel's ongoing efforts to encourage a high Jewish birthrate by focusing a feminist lens on public discourse, popular culture, and particular policies, all of which, she argues, have a highly pernicious impact on women. Despite the differences in feminist perspectives on the issue of fertility, they share a critical stance toward state regulation of the family, and all aid Portugese's narrative in uncovering and explaining the large repertoire of relatively intrusive regulatory mechanisms at the disposal of the government. The special insight of Fertility in Israel lies in its clarifications of the connections between seemingly benign welfare benefits and tax incentives and denying women autonomy with regard to the decision to bear children.

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