The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina

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Garganta, Santiago; Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos; Marchionni, Mariana; Tappatá, Mariano
Año de publicación
2017
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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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Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
title The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
spellingShingle The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
Garganta, Santiago
Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
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 The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence from Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Garganta, Santiago
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
author Garganta, Santiago
author_facet Garganta, Santiago
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
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author2 Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
author2_role author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
topic Ciencias Económicas
Fertility
Cash transfers
Social protection
AUH
Argentina
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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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