TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
AU  - Ibanez, Ana Maria
AU  - Rozo, Sandra V.
AU  - Traettino, Salvador
        TI  - More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
        PY  - 2023/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16170
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16170
        AB  - 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.

        KW  - migration
KW  - refugees
KW  - amnesties
KW  - Latin America
        ER  -