“…Various studies have examined the possibility that couples will have more children if husbands increase their contributions to domestic work. There has been a number of large comparative studies using developed countries' data (GarciaManglano, Nollenberger, and Sevilla 2015) or data from multiple European nations (Crespi and Fontaine 2012;Harknett, Billari, and Medalia 2014;Kohler, Billari, and Ortega 2006), as well as research on specific countries, such as Australia Siminski 2010a, 2010b), Finland (Miettinen, Basten, and Rotkirch 2011), Germany (Cooke 2004), Hungry (Oláh 2003), Italy (Pinnelli and Fiori 2008;Rizzi 2012), Japan (Komatsu 2011), the Netherlands (Mills et al 2008), Portugal (Andrade and Bould 2012), Spain (Cooke 2009), Sweden (Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Brandén 2013;Nilsson 2010), and the United States (Torr and Short 2004). These analyses document a variety of patterns.…”