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Title: Fertility and Financial Incentives in France

Author(s): Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié

Publication Date: September 2003

Keyword(s): fertility and incentives

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: Commentators have often linked the increase in births in France since 1995 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. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in a non-negligible way. The results, however, also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much stronger effects on low-parity births.

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Laroque, G and Salanié, B. 2003. 'Fertility and Financial Incentives in France'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4064