Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia

This paper estimates the effects of a childbirth grant policy introduced in Armenia in 2009 in response to low fertility rates. We employ a quasi-experimental strategy exploiting the timing of the policy change and eligibility rule—women could get a larger transfer only for third and higher order bi...

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Autores principales: Pinto, María Florencia, Posadas, Josefina, Shapira, Gil
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Publicado: 2018
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Ciencias Económicas
Ciencias Sociales
Armenia
childbirth grant policy
fertility
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/165452
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1654522024-04-29T20:01:51Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/165452 Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia Pinto, María Florencia Posadas, Josefina Shapira, Gil 2018-11 2018 2024-04-29T16:43:47Z en Ciencias Económicas Ciencias Sociales Armenia childbirth grant policy fertility This paper estimates the effects of a childbirth grant policy introduced in Armenia in 2009 in response to low fertility rates. We employ a quasi-experimental strategy exploiting the timing of the policy change and eligibility rule—women could get a larger transfer only for third and higher order births. We find an overall positive impact of the policy on the fertility of women who already had two births and we do not find heterogeneity in response to the policy by wealth, schooling or residence in rural versus urban area. While Armenia has one of the highest sex imbalances at birth, we do not find that additional newborns are significantly more likely to be male. We do find, however, that parents without any son are more likely to have an additional birth after the policy change in comparison to parents who already have at least one son. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Ciencias Sociales
Armenia
childbirth grant policy
fertility
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Ciencias Sociales
Armenia
childbirth grant policy
fertility
Pinto, María Florencia
Posadas, Josefina
Shapira, Gil
Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Ciencias Sociales
Armenia
childbirth grant policy
fertility
description This paper estimates the effects of a childbirth grant policy introduced in Armenia in 2009 in response to low fertility rates. We employ a quasi-experimental strategy exploiting the timing of the policy change and eligibility rule—women could get a larger transfer only for third and higher order births. We find an overall positive impact of the policy on the fertility of women who already had two births and we do not find heterogeneity in response to the policy by wealth, schooling or residence in rural versus urban area. While Armenia has one of the highest sex imbalances at birth, we do not find that additional newborns are significantly more likely to be male. We do find, however, that parents without any son are more likely to have an additional birth after the policy change in comparison to parents who already have at least one son.
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Objeto de conferencia
author Pinto, María Florencia
Posadas, Josefina
Shapira, Gil
author_facet Pinto, María Florencia
Posadas, Josefina
Shapira, Gil
author_sort Pinto, María Florencia
title Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
title_short Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
title_full Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
title_fullStr Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
title_full_unstemmed Financial Incentives, Fertility and Son Preference in Armenia
title_sort financial incentives, fertility and son preference in armenia
publishDate 2018
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/165452
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