social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a … difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all … be flexibly estimated across age groups. We find that the Scottish policy reduced the average household saving by about …

, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …. -- treatment effect heterogeneity ; welfare reform ; distributional effects …

household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …

parents. Findings indicate that policy makers should target the household rather the individual, and combine policies for …

monetary transfer is targeted to women and a local random assignment into the AFAM-PE which exogenously changed the intra-household … taking greater (perceived) responsibility for decisions in specific spheres of household expenditures. In conclusion … increase in women's control over household resources, offering suggestive considerations for the ongoing debate in developing …