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Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
In this paper we examine the desirability of subsidizing child care expenditures in a model where parents can choose both the quantity and the quality of child care services they purchase in the market. Our vehicle of analysis is a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where child care services not...
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Fertility Effects of Child Benefits
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
de Haan, Monique - 2018
There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare … parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912430
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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career
Drange, Nina - 2012
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105140
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Taxing Children : The Re-Distributive Role of Child Benefits - Revisited
Blumkin, Tomer - 2010
In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to enhance egalitarian objectives. We show that the case for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147268
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility
Cigno, Alessandro - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077456
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2021
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315723
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis : A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316388