According to Libanova, just the crisis will help the Ukrainians to improve the demographic situation. "Now the young people are joking if during the crisis it is not possible to be engaged in making goods and services, then it is worth "making" children. Just during the crisis family allowances will work. The people have real problems with work, incomes, while the state proposes stable and good money.
I'm rather skeptic about this - I would think that uncertainty would be an incentive for families to delay children, not the opposite.
Moreover, the 12000 or so UAH one gets for a first child are peanuts compared to the cost of a child. Though this study for Israel
does find effects of financial incentives on child birth
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