Quantitative analysis on the economic support for young people and presentation of effective measures against declining birth rate

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K21558
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Public finance/Public economy; Sociology
• Research Institution: Yamaguchi University (2017); The International University of Kagoshima (2016)
• Principal Investigator: Fukui Shogo 山口大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80380690)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 所得分布 / 少子化 / 計量経済学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we investigate the economic situation of young people and their regional differences, estimate how their situation and other factors affect their birth rate, and present effective measures against declining birth rate in Japan.
From our analysis, we found that the degree of income inequality among young people and the proportion of young and low income households tended to be higher for the rural areas. On the other hand, we showed that the birth rates of each area are affected by the proportion of young population, the female unmarried rate, and the nuclear family households ratio, and other factors. Moreover, the birth rates are clearly low in urbanized areas. From these result, we concluded that the measures such as increasing marriage and childcare support for young people could contribute to improvement of the birth rate in Japan.

Free Research Field

計量経済学