Quebec’s Baby Bonus: Can Public Policy Raise Fertility?

January 24, 2002 — In 1988, Quebec introduced the Allowance for Newborn Children, a pro-natalist child benefit that paid up to $8,000 to a family after the birth of a child. Was the program successful? It achieved its goal of increasing family size, but only at a high cost per additional birth. Each child who […]

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