Cash transfers and fertility: how the introduction and cancellation of a child benefit affected births and abortions

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  • dc.contributor.author González, Libertad
  • dc.contributor.author Trommlerová, Sofia Karina
  • dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-06T06:54:47Z
  • dc.date.available 2023-07-06T06:54:47Z
  • dc.date.issued 2023
  • dc.description.abstract 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”).
  • dc.description.sponsorship They acknowledge funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program CoG770958. Libertad González received ERC Consolidator grant 770958 in 2018. No other party had the right to review this paper prior to its circulation. No IRB approval was needed since administrative, anonymized data were used.
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  • dc.identifier.citation González L, Trommlerová SK. Cash transfers and fertility: how the introduction and cancellation of a child benefit affected births and abortions. J Hum Resour. 2023;58(3):783-818. DOI: 10.3368/jhr.59.1.0220-10725R2
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/jhr.59.1.0220-10725R2
  • dc.identifier.issn 0022-166X
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57477
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Human Resources. 2023;58(3):783-818.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/770958
  • dc.rights © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org
  • dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
  • dc.rights.uri http://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
  • dc.subject.other Fecunditat humana
  • dc.subject.other Avortament
  • dc.title Cash transfers and fertility: how the introduction and cancellation of a child benefit affected births and abortions
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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