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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
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Poverty and Individual Responsibility
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020
Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245624
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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219073
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Welfare Reforms and the Division of Parental Leave
Jørgensen, Thomas Høgholm; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2021
We study the design of parental leave systems through the lens of an estimated model of parents’ joint willingness to pay for parental leave. We estimate the model using Danish register data on almost 200,000 births combined with sharp variation in economic incentives created by the parental...
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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305650
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? Theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288473