Pronatalist policies’ backlash in authoritarian regimes

Le LEMMA organise un séminaire, sur le thème « Pronatalist policies’ backlash in authoritarian regimes » le mardi 25 mars à 11h. 

Thomas BAUDIN

Résumé : 

European fascist regimes have attached great importance to nationalistic families and designed policies to perpetuate them. Most offered policy packages with interest-free loans repayable through childbirth, along with allowances and tax deductions for large families. Using a difference-indifference approach and Nazi Germany as a case study, we show that these policies may have counterproductive effects due to negative selection mechanismsin the marriage market. The excessive pressure to marry exerted on singles results in lower quality, ultimately less fertile, and more fragile unions. This finding is important as the main European far-right parties today propose reinstating these policy packages.