Gendered Fertility Intentions of Millennials amidst Covid-19 Pandemic. The Case of Lithuania

Vytenis Juozas Deimantas , NIDI
Ausra Maslauskaite, Vytautas Magnus University

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of human life including fertility. Due to epidemiological, financial, and social uncertainty people may choose to postpone having children or update their fertility intentions. These aspects are even more relevant for people in childbearing ages whose lives arguably get affected by the pandemic the most, millennials in general and millennial women in particular. In this paper we ask what is the connection between the change in fertility intentions and change in socio-economic resources (e.g. finance, mental, physical wellbeing, life satisfaction) caused by COVID-19 containment measures. We use data from the Families and Inequalities Survey carried out in Lithuania in 2021 to answer the question. Analytically multinomial logistic regression with robust standard errors is employed. We find that COVID-19 pandemic has a gendered connection to fertility intention postponement through worsening life satisfaction and financial security among millennials.

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 Presented in Session 19. Flash Session: Fertility and the COVID-19 Pandemic