Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?

Adeola Oyenubi and Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, vol. 73, issue C, 812-825

Abstract: This paper considers the perverse incentive that can be created for poor households that are benefitting from the South African Child Support Grant (CSG). We acknowledge the fact that the CSG has been successful in improving child outcomes. However, if caregivers see the CSG as a livelihood strategy and respond with multiple births, this will jeopardise the long-term fiscal sustainability of the grant. Such an incentive may also perpetuate poverty and inequality, which will defeat the very purpose the CSG is meant to achieve.

Keywords: Social transfers; Poverty; Provision and effects of welfare programmes; Count models; Instrumental variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 I31 I32 I38 Q56 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2022.01.005

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