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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION-REVUE EUROPEENNE DE DEMOGRAPHIE
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-023-09653-8
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Child subsidy; Child outcomes; Household spending; Maternity capital; Regression discontinuity
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This study evaluates the impact of the Maternity Capital (MC) program on child health, household consumption patterns, and housing quality. The study finds that MC eligibility may lead to a small improvement in child health, particularly in rural areas where housing conditions are improved. However, children in MC-eligible families are more likely to report reduced socialization. Heterogeneity analysis suggests that MC incentives may have a differential impact on various outcomes.
This study evaluates the impact of introducing the Maternity Capital (MC) program-a child subsidy of 250,000 Rub (7,150 euros or 10,000 USD, in 2007)-provided to mothers giving birth to/adopting a second or subsequent child since January 2007. Eligible Russian families could use this subsidy to improve family housing conditions, fund child's education/childcare, or invest in the mother's retirement fund. This study evaluates the impact of MC eligibility on various child health and developmental outcomes, household consumption patterns, and housing quality. Using data from the representative Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey 2010-2017, I tested regression discontinuity models and found that MC eligibility may have led to a small improvement in child health status, which could be explained by improved housing conditions, particularly in rural areas. However, children living in MC-eligible families were also more likely to report reduced socialisation. Heterogeneity analysis by child gender, household poverty status, and urban/rural residence suggests that MC incentives may have had a differential impact on some analysed outcomes. Results are robust to different polynomial and nonparametric RDD specifications.
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