Subsidizing the Stork: New Evidence on Tax Incentives and Fertility

• Autores: Kevin Milligan
• Localización: The Review of economics and statistics, ISSN 0034-6535, Vol. 87, Nº 3, 2005, págs. 539-555
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper exploits the introduction of a pronatalist transfer policy in the Canadian province of Quebec that paid up to C$8,000 to families having a child. I implement a quasi-experimental strategy by forming treatment and control groups defined by time, jurisdiction, and family type. The incentive was available broadly, rather than to a narrow population as studied in previous work, providing an exceptional opportunity to investigate heterogeneous responses. I find a strong effect of the policy on fertility, and some evidence of a heterogeneous response that may help reconcile these results with previous estimates.