TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
AU  - Borra, Cristina
AU  - Garrido, Noelia Rivera
        TI  - Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality
        PY  - 2019/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12641
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12641
        AB  - We examine the fertility impact of a change in immigration policy granting temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants based on their offspring nationality. The policy, intended to facilitate family reunification, was enacted in a 2011 Royal Decree in Spain. It recognized the ability for undocumented parents to become temporary legal residents if they had a Spanish child under the age of 18. Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey for the 2007 through 2016 period, along with a quasi-experimental approach that exploits the change in legal residency eligibility requirements, we show that the 2011 Royal Decree increased fertility among individuals potentially affected by the reform by approximately 32 percent.
        KW  - fertility
KW  - legalization
KW  - immigrants
KW  - Spain
        ER  -