Browsing by Autor "Cristina Borra"

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Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2019) Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes; Cristina Borra; Noelia Rivera Garrido
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.
Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2019) Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes; Cristina Borra; Noelia Rivera Garrido
Timing is Everything When Fighting a Pandemic: Covid-19 Mortality in Spain
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2020) Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes; Cristina Borra; Noelia Rivera Garrido; Almudena Sevilla
Timing is Everything When Fighting a Pandemic: Covid-19 Mortality in Spain
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2020) Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes; Cristina Borra; Noelia Rivera Garrido; Almudena Sevilla
In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing measures. Previous studies have relied on the geographical and temporal variation in the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the non-random adoption of NPIs, the findings may not be interpreted as causal. We address this limitation using a different source of identification –namely, the regional variation in the placement on the pandemic curve at the time of a nationwide lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak, regions where the outbreak had just started were able to lower their daily fatality rate by 2.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. We also provide suggestive evidence of contagion deceleration as the main mechanism behind the effectiveness of the early adoption of NPIs in lowering the death rate, rather than increased healthcare capacity.