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 …

low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the … UK did not receive means-tested child benefits, amounting to a reduction in income relative to the previous system of …

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 …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the … organization of the family. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; welfare state ; risk sharing …

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 …