| In recent years,various population problems caused by the rapid decline of fertility rate have gradually become prominent,including aggravating population aging,shortage of young and middle-aged labor force,and gradually changing sociodemographic structure.The seventh national census shows that China ’s total fertility rate is 1.3,and the low fertility rate has become one of the major hidden dangers of China ’s balanced population development.In response to the serious problem of low fertility,the government has successively introduced the ’comprehensive two-child ’ and’comprehensive three-child’ fertility policies,but the results are not significant.Low fertility rate has attracted the attention of many scholars,and discussed the influencing factors of fertility rate from economic,social,cultural and other dimensions,But the research on fertility intention from the perspective of living conditions is not rich.Based on the data of China ’s comprehensive social survey from 2017 to 2018,this study describes and analyzes the four independent variables which include the real estate quantity,housing area,number of co-residents and spouse residence,along with the four control variables,including education level,economic status,pension responsibility and health level,and fertility intention.This paper uses SPSS software to conduct Poisson regression analysis on the impact of living conditions on fertility desire.Firstly,the number of real estate has no significant impact on fertility desire,but it has a significant positive impact on fertility desire when the male own real estate.Secondly,the housing area has a significant positive impact on fertility desire,and the larger the housing area,the higher the fertility desire.The third is that inter-generational living can increase fertility desire,and the more people living together,the higher fertility desire.Finally,the influence of spouse living on fertility intention is not obvious,but when economic variables were added,with the improvement of family economic level,spouse living together will stimulate fertility intention.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the number of cohabitants has a significant impact on the fertility desire of both male and female.Compared with female,spousal cohabitation has a significant positive correlation with male fertility intention.In the urban-rural regression analysis,compared with rural areas,urban housing area has a significant positive impact on fertility desire.Compared with cities,the number of rural cohabitants is more sensitive to the impact of fertility desire.The number of real estate and the residence of spouses have no significant impact on urban and rural fertility desire.After that,the data of 2017 and 2018 were tested for robustness,and the results were in line with expectations and robust.Based on the analysis of empirical results,this paper proposes targeted policy recommendations.The specific contents including: relevant departments should formulate reasonable housing policies,and increase housing subsidies and care for those who are difficult to live in houses and have fertility desires.The government should strengthen the role of housing regulation and guide excessive housing prices smoothly.Meanwhile,combining with the adjustment of real estate developers to improve housing units,the government could optimize the living area of houses,so that the residents can get enough living space after improving their fertility.By popularizing the concept of large family living,we can enhance male to realize the participation in marriage to create a harmonious atmosphere for couples to foster the children.Figure [6] Table [17] Reference [60]... |
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