The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility, Hardcover

This book argues that Japan's extremely low fertility rate is due to labor markets inhospitable to women, which make it difficult for them to balance home and work and discourage them from having as many children as they want.

About author(s):Frances McCall Rosenbluth is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Leitner Program in Political Economy at Yale University. Her recent publications include The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Prewar Japan (1995); and Japan's Political Marketplace (1993).