direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. -- Population ; fertility ; incentives ; benefits …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex …-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing … with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …

work conditions on worker health; (iii) the impact of differential employer incentives to reintegrate ill workers; and (iv …) the differential impact of labor market prospects on the decision to apply for DI benefits. We find that selection …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …

by two key features of leave policies: flexibility in leave duration and financial incentives. To disentangle their … impact, we exploit recent changes to the Austrian parental leave system, which initially offered flat monthly benefits for 36 …-dependent benefits, increasing net income replacement rates to 80 percent. Using a regression discontinuity design based on eligibility …

responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are … economic incentives are very important for intra-household leave-sharing. Increasing the couples' after tax income by $9 per …

countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they … how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We also show that providing work …