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%T The Effect of the Universal Child Care Cash Benefit on Female Labour Supply in Spain
%A Hernández Alemán, Anastasia
%A León, Carmelo J.
%A Márquez-Ramos, Laura
%J Estudios de economía aplicada / Studies of Applied Economics
%N 3
%P 801-818
%V 35
%D 2017
%K EU-SILC; female labour supply; Spanish "Baby Bonus"; DiDMethod
%@ 1697-5731
%~ FDB
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-75482-1
%X The aim of this paper is to measure the potential and real effect of universal child care cash benefit schemes on female labour supply. This subsidy, which was considered ground-breaking due to the fact that it was available to all, was introduced through the Spanish Government Act 35/2007 (BOE, 2007) and was in effect until 2010. Known as the "baby bonus", this subsidy of €2,500 per child born aimed to increase the birth rate in Spain. The introduction of this family policy provides a unique setting for a quasi-experiment, using semi-parametric DiD analysis and individual panel data sourced from the EU-SILC dataset. The results provide evidence of the positive effect of a cash-for-care subsidy that reduces the costs of a new child and increases female labour supply.
%C DEU
%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info