Cash Transfers and Fertility How the Introduction and Cancellation of a Child Benefit Affected Births and Abortions

被引:24
作者
Gonzalez, Libertad [1 ,2 ]
Trommlerova, Sofia Karina [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
[2] Barcelona Sch Econ, Barcelona, Spain
[3] Comenius Univ, Bratislava, Slovakia
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; LEAVE; CONSUMPTION; WELFARE; REDUCE;
D O I
10.3368/jhr.59.1.0220-10725R2
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We study the effects of a universal child benefit on fertility in Spain in the 2000s using administrative, population-level data, identifying separately the effects driven by conceptions and abortions. We exploit the timing of the introduction and cancellation of the policy to infer when the effects on abortions and births can be expected. We find that the introduction led to a 3 percent increase, the announcement of the cancellation to a transitory 4 percent increase, and the cancellation to a 6 percent decrease in birth rates. We perform heterogeneity analysis and find suggestive evidence of both a timing ("tempo") and a level effect ("quantum").
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页码:783 / 818
页数:36
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