Subsidizing the Stork: New Evidence on Tax Incentives and Fertility
The Review of Economics and Statistics
2005
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.
- DOI
- 10.1162/0034653054638382
- Volume
- 87 (3)
- Pages
- 539-555
- Language
- en
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