Born this way: the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Abstract Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and mathem...

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Main Author: Sergi Sánchez-Coll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-12-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-022-00270-y