What is holding you back from giving birth? An investigation of the proximate factors affecting the intention to give birth in Singapore

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Tan, Siok Ling, Tee, Siew Lee, Lau, Vivian Shi Ni, Yu, Jianfei
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women; DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51920
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we have investigated the proximate factors influencing fertility intentions in Singapore. We have used fertility intentions to capture the responses of the full population, instead of the total fertility rate (TFR) which only represents the sub-population. Gary Becker's economic...