Oyama, Masako - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2004
decline in Japan has been caused by increases in the cost of child rearing. Although there are various ways to estimate the … the cost of child raising in Japan is not very high. However, the results of the equivalence scale estimation using … Japan is much higher than was believed to be the case, and this could be one of the reasons for the decline in the fertility …