She who Pays the Piper Calls the Number: Reparations and Gender Differences in Fertility Choice

Moshe Hazan () and Shay Tsur ()
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Shay Tsur: Research Department, Bank of Israel, P.O. Box 780, Jerusalem 9100701

No 2025-16, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study how shifting intra-household control over resources affects fertility, exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in Israel where some Holocaust survivors began receiving substantial and unexpected reparations in 1957 and others decades later. Using a triple-difference design with heterogeneity by age, we compare fertility outcomes by timing of reparations, gender of the recipient, and age. Households where only the young female partner received reparations early had 0.25–0.4 fewer children than comparable households where only the male was treated. An event study shows that this effect is driven entirely by post-1957 fertility, suggesting a causal link to increased female resource control

Keywords: Fertility Choice; Intrahouseho (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-11
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