Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/304420 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 2024/09
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
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-in-difference approach and Nazi Germany as a case study, we show that these policies may have counterproductive effects due to negative selection mechanisms in 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.
Subjects: 
Family policies
Fascism and Nazism
Fertility
Marriage
Divorce
Female labor force participation
JEL: 
N3
D1
J1
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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