Brewer, Mike (contributor); Ratcliffe, Anita (contributor); … - 2008
In 1999 the UK government made major reforms to the system of child-contingent benefits, including the introduction of … year period. This paper examines whether there was a response in childbearing. To identify the effect of the reforms, we …) education of the woman and her partner to define treatment and control groups. We argue that the reforms are most likely to have …