Erschienen in:The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) ; No. 851
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1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1117484
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments Jan 13, 2011 erstellt
Beschreibung:
The introduction of the 1999 Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) in the UK encouraged low income families with children to enter the labor market. The tax credit, however, may have had the unintended side effect of increasing the childbearing of these households. While many studies have looked at the importance of WFTC on the female labor supply, only few have estimated the impact it had on fertility decisions of British families. This paper employs the 1991-2003 British Household Panel Survey and identifies the policy impact of WFTC by observing the change in the timing of birth using a difference in differences estimator.The main findings of this paper suggest that those who are readily eligible for WFTC (i.e. women with children as well as those with working partners) were more likely to have shortened their timing of birth. Moreover, further analysis highlights the importance of policies other than WFTC on the observed change in the birth timing