01110nam a22001337a 4500 533708 533708 260612b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Mishra, Udaya S. and Anand, Abhishek 61208 Do financial incentives revise fertility choices? Economic & Political Weekly 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.17-20 The recent draft Population Management Policy by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, which proposes monetary benefits for couples having a second or third child, merits scrutiny on empirical, normative, and equity grounds. Drawing on the state’s demographic trajectory, the international evidence on pro-natal fiscal incentives, India’s experience with incentive-based family planning programmes, and a consideration of the structural determinants of fertility decline, this article argues that monetary incentivisation is unlikely to produce a sustained reversal in fertility choices. –Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/commentary/do-financial-incentives-revise-fertility-choices.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408887 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-12 61(19), May 9, 2026: p.17-20 AR139180 2026-06-12 AR