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Can Maternity Benefits Have Long-Term Effects on Childbearing? Evidence from Soviet Russia

Author(s) -

Olga Malkova

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the review of economics and statistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1530-9142

pISSN - 0034-6535

DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00713

Subject(s) - fertility , term (time) , birth rate , demography , total fertility rate , demographic economics , duration (music) , transfer (computing) , economics , family planning , population , research methodology , sociology , art , physics , literature , quantum mechanics , parallel computing , computer science

This paper quantifies the effects of Russia’s 1981 expansion in maternity benefits on completed childbearing. The program provided one year of partially paid parental leave and a small cash transfer upon a child’s birth. I exploit the program’s two-stage implementation and find evidence that women had more children as a result of the program. Fertility rates rose immediately by 8.2% over twelve months. The increase in fertility rates not only persisted for the ten-year duration of the program, but it reflected large increases in higher-order births to older women who already had children before the program started.

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