Deep Dive Podcast: Why Incentives Don’t Work to Reduce Fertility Rates

Singapore’s total fertility rate has fallen to a record low of 0.97. Citizens do not have enough children to support the population and all the money spent to encourage procreation does not seem to work.

Steven Chia and Crispina Robert talk about the causes of the decline with Dr Norman Li, professor of psychology at Singapore Management University and mother of one of them, Holly Fang.