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Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023

This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...

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Social assistance and labour supply

Christofidēs, Loizos N. - 1999

The longitudinal, 1988-89, LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endoge nous selection of social assistance status,...

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Social assistance and refugee crime

Auer, Daniel; Slotwinski, Michaela; Ahrens, Achim; … - 2024

Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking …

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Earnings inequality and the minimum wage : evidence from Brazil

Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - 2017

We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil …

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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy

Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …

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How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job : evidence from a natural experiment

Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...

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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies

Bernecker, Andreas - 2014

Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...

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Estimating participation responses using transfer program reform

Bastani, Spencer; Moberg, Ylva; Selin, Håkan - 2016

In this paper we estimate labor force participation responses for married women in Sweden using population-wide register data and detailed information about individuals' budget sets. For identification we exploit a reform in the system for housing allowances in 1997 which affected participation...

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Some macroeconomic consequences of basic income and employment subsidies

Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2003

Two macro models one for a closed economy and the other for a small open economy are used to examine the scope for income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic income) and an employment subsidy are examined, and these...

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Germany's economic unification : an assessment after ten years

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...

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