The importance of the Maternity capital for different types of families
Abstract
Russia, as some other countries, is the county with low fertility. In 2007 russian government implemented a policy that is known as maternity capital aimed the increase of fertility in the country. The policy was planned to be finish at the end of 2016. In case if the policy would be continued it is useful to estimate it’s efficiency for different households. In this article was estimated the importance of maternity capital certificates for different types of households. The main purpose of the article was to find out characteristic of the households which has low value of maternity capital. The estimations results may be used to modify ways of use maternity capital certificates to improve it’s efficiency in case of continuation this policy.
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D. A. Kulakov
National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Kulakov D.A. The importance of the Maternity capital for different types of families. World of Economics and Management. 2015;15(3):11–20. (In Russ.)
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