imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit …

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple … to receive the tax credit, they also experienced a greater risk of divorce. We find virtually no effect for women with …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a recent Swedish in-work tax credit reform where we pay particular attention … participation we find that this reform is almost self-financing. -- Labor supply ; single mothers ; in-work tax credit ; social …

to pay off through future increases in earnings. -- Earned income tax credit ; earnings ; single mothers …

results suggest that increased basic deduction and in-work tax credit in combination with a reduction of the progressive … ; in-work tax credit reform ; optimal taxation …

those firms that have employees). The channel through which this occurs is not access to credit or contracts with larger …

increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self-employed from 25 to 100 percent. We study how these changes …