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Do property taxes a ect fertility? Quasi-experimental evidence from Portugal
| Resumo: | This paper uses a property tax decrease to obtain causal estimates of the impact of taxes on household fertility decisions. We combine administrative data on all births occurred in Portugal between 2004 and 2011 with scal, demographic and political data on 278 municipalities in mainland Portugal. Through a Di erencein- Di erences strategy, we found that muncipalities that were forced to decrease property tax faced an increase in fertility comparing to their counterfactual. Additionally, we show that these e ects are larger in households in which the mother is either portuguese, less educated or unemployed. The result is driven by second and higher order births. |
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| Autores principais: | Marques, Ana Rita Leite |
| Assunto: | Fertility Property tax Income |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This paper uses a property tax decrease to obtain causal estimates of the impact of taxes on household fertility decisions. We combine administrative data on all births occurred in Portugal between 2004 and 2011 with scal, demographic and political data on 278 municipalities in mainland Portugal. Through a Di erencein- Di erences strategy, we found that muncipalities that were forced to decrease property tax faced an increase in fertility comparing to their counterfactual. Additionally, we show that these e ects are larger in households in which the mother is either portuguese, less educated or unemployed. The result is driven by second and higher order births. |
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