The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence for Argentina

In 2009 Argentina implemented 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 estimate the potential unintended effect of that program on fertility decisions using a diff-in-diff strategy. T...

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Autores principales: Garganta, Santiago, Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Marchionni, Mariana, Tappatá, Mariano
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2014
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Ciencias Económicas
fertility
cash transfers
social protection
AUH
Argentina
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170435
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1704352024-09-20T20:44:21Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170435 The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence for Argentina Garganta, Santiago Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Marchionni, Mariana Tappatá, Mariano 2014-11 2014 2024-09-20T15:49:11Z en Ciencias Económicas fertility cash transfers social protection AUH Argentina In 2009 Argentina implemented 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 estimate the potential unintended effect of that program on fertility decisions using a diff-in-diff strategy. The results suggest a significant positive impact on fertility in those households with already at least one child (around 2 percentage points), but no significant effect on those households without children. We are unable to identify whether the positive effect in the former group reflects changes in the time pattern of fertility or in the equilibrium number of children. A fines de 2009 se implementó en Argentina el programa de Asignación Universal por Hijo (AUH) que consiste en una transferencia monetaria mensual para aquellos niños o jóvenes cuyos padres estén desocupados o se desempeñen en la economía informal. En este trabajo se estima el potencial efecto no intencionado de la política sobre fecundidad utilizando una estrategia de diferencias en diferencias. Los resultados sugieren un impacto positivo y significativo del programa sobre la probabilidad de tener un nuevo hijo. Dicho efecto se encuentra presente en aquellos hogares con al menos un hijo pero no resulta significativo sobre aquellas parejas sin hijos. Los resultados de este trabajo, sin embargo, no permiten identificar si el efecto encontrado sobre el primer grupo obedece a cambios transitorios o permanentes en fecundidad. 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
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 for Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
fertility
cash transfers
social protection
AUH
Argentina
description In 2009 Argentina implemented 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 estimate the potential unintended effect of that program on fertility decisions using a diff-in-diff strategy. The results suggest a significant positive impact on fertility in those households with already at least one child (around 2 percentage points), but no significant effect on those households without children. We are unable to identify whether the positive effect in the former group reflects changes in the time pattern of fertility or in the equilibrium number of children.
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Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Tappatá, Mariano
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title The effect of cash transfers on fertility: evidence for Argentina
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