ArticleEuropean journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie2024
Flexible Working Arrangements and Fertility Intentions: A Survey Experiment in Singapore.
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- Gender equity and sustainable development through the lens of fertility intentions among highly educated women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
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- The association between basic pension insurance and fertility intentions among flexibly employed workers in China's new forms of employment.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The association between sports participation and fertility intentions among Chinese youth: an empirical study based on the China family panel studies.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Air pollution and fertility potential: evidence from employed women in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The impact of family functioning on fertility intentions among university students: a study based on latent profile analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Reimagining Singapore's work culture: the four-day workweek proposition.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study examines how young, unmarried, working people's fertility intention is shaped by future scenarios where flexible working arrangements (FWAs) are the default. The unmarried population remains to be an under-studied part of the working population at reproductive ages, who nevertheless becomes increasingly significant for fertility research due to rising ages at marriage and the first birth. Despite significant public anticipation regarding the potential of FWAs to facilitate work-family balance and fertility, there is little research on the effects of FWAs on fertility intentions. We conduct a population-based vignette survey experiment to identify the causal effects of FWAs by randomly manipulating three scenarios of FWAs policy changes-reducing hours, increasing work-schedule flexibility, and increasing workplace flexibility-in Singapore, where both overwork norm and low fertility co-exist. All three types of FWAs improve fertility intentions. The effects are especially substantial for women, for which anticipated work-family conflict is an important mediator. Moreover, FWAs matter particularly to those in professional and managerial occupations. These findings call for policies facilitating a more family-friendly environment to tackle low fertility in the future of work.
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