The causal effect of an income shock on children’s human capital
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- dc.contributor.author Borra, Cristina
- dc.contributor.author Costa-Ramón, Ana
- dc.contributor.author González Luna, Libertad
- dc.contributor.author Sevilla, Almudena
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
- dc.date.issued 2021-07-01
- dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:08:10Z
- dc.description.abstract We investigate the causal impact of a generous unconditional cash transfer at birth on children's later health outcomes and academic performance. Using rich administrative data, we take advantage of the unexpected introduction of a "baby bonus" in Spain in 2007, and implement a difference-in-discontinuity approach comparing children born in the surrounding months in different years. We find that the subsidy did not have a significant effect on health outcomes during childhood, nor on test scores in primary school. In line with this result, we show that the benefit did not affect the main potential mechanisms that could in turn have affected children's health and academic performance. Our results contribute to understanding which interventions are effective at improving children's health and human capital formation.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1789
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68591
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1789
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- dc.subject.keyword children
- dc.subject.keyword health
- dc.subject.keyword education
- dc.subject.keyword income shock
- dc.subject.keyword child benefit
- dc.subject.keyword spain
- dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
- dc.title The causal effect of an income shock on children’s human capital
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