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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019
The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051866
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Child care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284024
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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013
Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082974
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315925
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The impact of pro-vulnerable income transfers : leisure, dependency and a distribution hypothesis
Limodio, Nicola - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487492
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America?s Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262726
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406
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Social transfers, labor supply and poverty reduction : the case of Albania
Dabalen, Andrew (contributor); Kilic, Talip (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003780163
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Conditional cash transfers, adult work incentives and poverty
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003371392
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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019
attendance on women's labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051780