Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29945 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 98
Publisher: 
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Abstract: 
The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on January 1st, 2007 or later. The new Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off date led more than 1000 parents to postpone the delivery of their children from December 2006 to January 2007. Besides analyzing the timing of delivery the paper focuses on potential adverse health outcomes of children affected by the shift in date of birth.
Subjects: 
Cut-off date effect
fertility
policy evaluation
JEL: 
H31
J13
ISBN: 
978-3-86788-109-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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