ECON 426 Lecture Notes - Literature Review, Cohort Analysis
4 Nov 2011
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Title: subsidizing the stork: new evidence on tax incentives and fertility. Main hypotheses/questions: do fiscal policies affect fertility rate, does the magnitude of incentives affect fertility rate, many cited articles examine the view of fiscal incentives on fertility (for example, Duclos, lefebvre, and merrigan (2001): also cited articles that presented different results in order to explain differences in their findings (rosenzweig (1999), fairlie and london (1997), acs (1996)). Frontier: effectiveness of fiscal policies that promote higher fertility rate. Data: uses vital statistics from the canadian census.
