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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 a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...

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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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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality : Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles DH; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …

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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...

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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...

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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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Partisan Fiscal Policy : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider, Ondrej - 2020

This paper examines effects of political ideology of a governing party on fiscal outcomes, using data from eight Central and Eastern European countries in the 2001-2017 period. The analysis shows that there is a statistically significant effect of conservative governments on fiscal variables,...

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