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Citizenship, Fertility, and Parental Investments

Author(s) -

Ciro Avitabile,

Irma ClotsFigueras,

Paolo Masella

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.6.4.35

Subject(s) - citizenship , fertility , shock (circulatory) , human capital , immigration , investment (military) , economics , demographic economics , political science , labour economics , sociology , economic growth , demography , law , medicine , population , politics

Citizenship rights are associated with better economic opportunities for immigrants. This paper studies how in a country with a large fraction of temporary migrants the fertility decisions of foreign citizens respond to a change in the rules that regulate child legal status at birth. The introduction of birthright citizenship in Germany in 2000, represented a positive shock to the returns to investment in child human capital. Consistent with Becker's "quality-quantity" model of fertility, we find that birthright citizenship leads to a reduction in immigrant fertility and an improvement in health and socio-emotional outcomes for the children affected by the reform.

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