Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Date Written: April 2005
Abstract
We attempt here to evaluate the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives in France. We discuss and implement several estimation strategies; our main focus is on a structural model of female participation and fertility based on a microsimulation model of the tax-benefit system. We estimate this model on individual data from the Labor Force Survey. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a sizable role in determining fertility decisions in France.
Keywords: Population, fertility, incentives, benefits
JEL Classification: H53, J13, J22
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