Search Results - subject:"Child benefit"

Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024

Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large...

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Investing in children : the impact of EU tax and benefit systems on child poverty and inequality

Bornukova, Kateryna; Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2024

The EU committed to meet the poverty reduction target set in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, which entails to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion by 5 million by 2030. The paper assesses the impact of child-contingent cash support in EU-27 in...

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Labour supply responses to fiscal reforms in Portugal : an illustration with recent PIT and child benefit reforms

Narazani, Edlira; Riscado, Sara; Wemans, Lara - 2024

on the income tax system and on the child benefit in Portugal in 2022 and 2023. First-order effects of these measures …, whereas those affecting the minimum untaxed income were more evenly distributed. In contrast, the child benefit reinforcements … of the child benefit, with this negative reaction being concentrated on specific income and gender groups, such as single …

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Fertility incentives in Canada : a cohort analysis

Lee, Siha; Liu, Sitian - 2024 - This version: August 8, 2024

We study the fertility effects of the 1997 Quebec Family Policy, which introduced universal childcare and simultaneously ended its newborn allowance. Using a 20% sample of Canadian tax returns, we find that the reform reduced overall fertility at the intensive margin but had varying impacts by...

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Income effects and labour supply : evidence from a child benefits reform

Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard; Blundell, Jack - In: Journal of public economics 230 (2024), pp. 1-18

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Assessment of social protection for families with children in the EU member states

Mistre, Baiba; Leibus, Inguna; Mazure, Gunita - In: Contemporary economics 18 (2024) 2, pp. 210-222

The extent of social protection provided to families with children varies according to each country's unique economic, social, and demographic conditions. The most important factors for assessing social protection were studied and identified by means of the multivariate statistical analysis...

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The effects of child care subsidies on paid child care participation and labor market outcomes : evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Credit

Pepin, Gabrielle - 2024

The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a tax credit based on income and child care expenses, reduces child care costs for working families. The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act expanded the CDCC in 2003, generating differential increases in generosity across states and...

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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families

Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - In: International tax and public finance 31 (2024) 4, pp. 980-1008

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Civil conflict, cash transfers, and child nutrition in Yemen

Ecker, Olivier; Al-Malk, Afnan; Maystadt, Jean-François - In: Economic development and cultural change : EDCC 72 (2024) 4, pp. 2069-2100

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Employment and labor supply responses to the Child Tax Credit expansion : theory and evidence

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Strain, Michael R. - 2024

The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Our review of available...

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