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The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income Among Female-Headed Families

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021

Of all of the welfare reforms that were implemented during the 1990's, time limits may represent the single greatest break from past policy. This paper expands on what is known about this important welfare reform measure by exploiting the predictions from Grogger and Michalopoulos (1999) to...

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Market Reforms in the Time of Imbalance

Cacciatore, Matteo - 2016

We study the consequences of product and labor market reforms in a two-country model with endogenous producer entry and labor market frictions. We focus on the role of business cycle conditions and external constraints at the time of reform implementation (or of a credible commitment to it) in...

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Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare

Hotz, V. Joseph; Scholz, John Karl - 2021

This paper examines the employment effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC). We use a unique dataset, created by matching administrative data from public assistance records, unemployment insurance records, and federal tax returns for a sample of California residents. We conduct a set of...

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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform

Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2022

. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …

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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico

Parker, Susan - 2018

Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects on the youth they target. This paper estimates the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa on economic outcomes in early adulthood...

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Do Ccts Improve Employment and Earnings in the Very Long-Term? Evidence from Mexico

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2018

We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We rely on the original random assignment into early and late treatment localities, which introduced CCTs in 1998 and 2000. We focus on children between 7 and 16 years of age in...

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The Economics of Work Schedules Under the New Hours and Employment Taxes

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2014

Hours, employment, and income taxes are economically distinct, and all three are either introduced or expanded by the Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. The tax wedges push some workers to work more hours per week (for the weeks that they are on a payroll), and others to work less, with an...

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Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016

We propose a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of government spending on the economy. We use the fact that a large number of federal spending programs depend on local population levels. Every ten years, the Census provides a count of local populations....

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy

Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate...

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