BoI: Child benefits boost Arab, Haredi birthrates - Haaretz - Israel News
Economic assistance to families in Israel increased fertility among Arab and ultra-Orthodox with more than three children, according to a Bank of Israel study released yesterday and covering the 1994-2007 period.
The payment of state-funded child allowances - NIS 500 per month for the fourth child in a family and each additional child up to the seventh, and NIS 560 for the seventh child and each successive child - increased the probability of a married Arab woman having another child by between 6% and 7% and of a married ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman doing so by about 3%. Child allowances increased overall birthrates in Israel during the study period by about 2%.
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According to the study, the abolition of child allowances would result in an overall decline in fertility among Haredi women of about 0.2 children (one less child in one in five families) and 0.4 children among Bedouin woman in the south (two fewer children in one in five families. Overall fertility among Druze women and non-Haredi Jewish women would remain unchanged.
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