Brewer, Mike; Ratcliffe, Anita; dSmith, Sarah - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2012) 1, pp. 245-266
This paper provides evidence on the effect of welfare reform on fertility, focusing on UK reforms in 1999 that increased per-child spending by 50% in real terms. We use a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the fact that the reforms were targeted at low-income households. The reforms...