Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 698
Cover Image
Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions : Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460886
Cover Image
The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David - 2003
subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We analyze … the impact on subsidy receipt of household characteristics such as family size and structure, and past participation in … welfare. The most important determinant of receipt of a child care subsidy is past receipt, but we cannot determine from our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469033
Cover Image
Bargaining over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
fertility rate compared to a general child subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456602
Cover Image
Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity : Theory and Evidence for the U.S
Gordon, Roger H. - 2002
Entrepreneurial activity is presumed to generate important spillovers, potentially justifying tax subsidies. How does the tax law affect individual incentives? How much of an impact has it had in practice? We first show theoretically that taxes can affect the incentives to be an entrepreneur due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469698
Cover Image
Distributional Weights in Economic Analysis
Hahn, Robert William; Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The use of distributional weights in economic analysis is receiving increasing attention in both research and policy circles. This paper examines the extent to which distributional weights affect economic analysis of public good provision. We make two contributions. First, we present a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322862
Cover Image
The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses
Gentry, William M. - 1995
Tax relief for child care expenses, encompassing the Child Care Tax Credit and Dependent Care Assistance Plans, is the largest federal government program in the United States aimed at helping families with child care. We examine the distributional effects of these policies among families with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473799
Cover Image
Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
Rothschild, Casey - 2011
Recent policy proposals have suggested taxing top incomes at very high rates on the grounds that some or all of the highest wage earners are engaged in socially unproductive or counterproductive activities, such as externality imposing speculation in the financial sector. To address this, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461624
Cover Image
Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income
Boskin, Michael J. - 1976
The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy where the welfare of individuals depends in part on relative after-tax consumption, i.e., we specify individual welfare as a function of absolute and relative after-tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478985
Cover Image
The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Intertemporal Income Shifting
Gorry, Aspen - 2018
Knowing the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is crucial for understanding the effects of taxation on taxpayer behavior and consequently on tax revenues. Previous research finds that high-income individuals are the most sensitive to tax policy changes. However, these individuals have more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453185
Cover Image
Medicaid as an Investment in Children : What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?
Brown, David W. - 2015
We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's. With administrative data from the IRS, we calculate longitudinal health insurance eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457831