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Thailand Institution Factors Influencing Middle-Income Earning Generation Y'S Fertility Intentions, Satayu Pattarakijkusol, Anchana Naranong

Journal of Demography

Thailand's fertility rate has been declining from 5.6 children per women in 1970 to 1.5 children per women in 2016. With such a decline in the nation' fertility, Thailand will become an aged society in less than a decade. The aim is to understand the factors influencing people's fertility intentions which will lead to an improved formation of the country's official fertility policy. Theaim is toinvestigate the relationships between institutional factors and fertility intentions within the group of middle-income earning women from Generation Y who plan to have a child or children. The theory of institution was adopted for the …