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Fertility and Financial Incentives in France

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  • Guy Laroque
  • Bernard Salanié

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The increase in births in France since 1995 has often been linked by commentators to more generous family benefits. We study here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. The results reported here, while preliminary, suggest that fertility responds to incentives in a non-negligible way. However, they also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much stronger effects on low-parity births. (JEL I38, J13, J22)

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  • Guy Laroque & Bernard Salanié, 2004. "Fertility and Financial Incentives in France," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 50(3), pages 423-450.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:50:y:2004:i:3:p:423-450.
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    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General

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