More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga and Salvador Traettino

No 10431, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions This paper uses 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. The 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.

Date: 2023-05-02
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