Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment

Richard Crump, Gopi Goda and Kevin Mumford

American Economic Review, 2011, vol. 101, issue 4, 1616-28

Abstract: One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm, and Peters (1990), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using time series methods. We revisit this question in light of recent increases in child tax benefits by replicating this earlier study and extending the analysis. We do not find strong evidence to justify the model specification from the original paper. Moreover, even if the original specification is appropriate, we show that the results are not robust to more general measures of child tax benefits. (JEL H24, J13)

Date: 2011
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