The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina

In 2009 Argentina introduced a large poverty-alleviation program (AUH) that provides monthly cash transfers per child to households without workers in the formal sector. In this paper we study the potential unintended effect of this program on fertility. We apply a difference-in-difference strategy...

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Autores principales: Garganta, Santiago, Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Marchionni, Mariana, Tappatá, Mariano
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/104754
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
Garganta, Santiago
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
description In 2009 Argentina introduced a large poverty-alleviation program (AUH) that provides monthly cash transfers per child to households without workers in the formal sector. In this paper we study the potential unintended effect of this program on fertility. We apply a difference-in-difference strategy comparing the probability of having a new child among eligible and ineligible mothers both before and after the program inception. The intention to treat estimations suggest a significant positive impact on fertility in households with at least one child (around 2 percentage points), but no significant effect on childless households. Given the short time window since the implementation of the AUH, we are unable to identify whether this positive effect reflects changes in the timing of births or in the equilibrium number of children.
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author Garganta, Santiago
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
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title The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title_short The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title_full The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title_fullStr The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title_full_unstemmed The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title_sort effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from argentina
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