Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …