%0 Report
        %A Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
%A Ibanez, Ana Maria
%A Rozo, Sandra V.
%A Traettino, Salvador
        %T More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16170
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16170
        %X How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use 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. Our 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.

        %K migration
%K refugees
%K amnesties
%K Latin America