If, Per Child, a Woman Can Get Up to 48

Multiple Choice

If, per child, a woman can get up to 48 months of pension benefits and is guaranteed a maternity allowance two months before and after she gives birth, how will these benefits affect a woman's decision to have children?

A) These incentives will encourage women to have children and increase the birth rate.
B) These incentives will encourage only less educated women to have more children.
C) These incentives will have no effect on having children; the decision to have children is a social and psychological decision, not an economic decision.
D) These incentives will encourage only women with high opportunity costs to have more children.