TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brunner, Beatrice
AU  - Kuhn, Andreas
        TI  - Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus
        PY  - 2011/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6141
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6141
        AB  - We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find robust evidence that, within the month before the abolition, about 8% more children were born as a result of (re-)scheduling conceptions. At the same time, there is no evidence that mothers deliberately manipulated the date of birth through medical intervention. We also find a substantial and significant increase in the fraction of birth complications, but no evidence for any resulting adverse effects on newborns' health.
        KW  - timing of births
KW  - medical intervention
KW  - policy announcement
KW  - abolition effect
KW  - baby bonus
KW  - birth complications
KW  - scheduling of conceptions
        ER  -