Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap

By Melissa S. Kearney. 2002

121 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4765c21c3af69f46e0750c90b3440d66a08a4304

Citations in the corpus

• TREATMENT EFFECT HETEROGENEITY I N T HEORY AND PRACTICE (2004, unknown): “See, e.g., Grogger and Bronars (2001), Blank (2002) or Kearney (2002).”
• Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives? (2008, unknown): “5Milligan only differentiates children according to whether they are older than 6. criticisms apply to Kearney (2004), who estimates the fertility effect of the introduction of family caps in many US states following the 1996 reform of welfare.”
• Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, unknown): “Another body of economic literature has examined tax provisions that benefit families with children, but has shown these factors tend to have modest or no effects (e.g. Whittington, 1992; Zhang et al ., 1994; Kearny, 2004; Gauthier, 2007).”