More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (), Ana Ibáñez, Sandra V. Rozo () and Salvador Traettino ()
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Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes: University of California, Merced
Sandra V. Rozo: World Bank
Salvador Traettino: Inter-American Development Bank

No 16170, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor permit and access to social services. Our results suggest the amnesty reduced the likelihood that program beneficiaries would have a child due to better labor market opportunities for women and greater access to family planning resources through health care services.

Keywords: migration; refugees; amnesties; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2023-05
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