Effects on Fertility of The Brazilian Cash Transfer Program: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
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Keywords
Bolsa Família; Fertility; Birth Spacing; Cash Transfer;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2021-02-01 (Development)
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