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I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...
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fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means …
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Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...
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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...
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This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
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We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey period 1968–2013 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at...
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weaker redistributive effects. -- in-work benefits ; multi-sectoral labor supply ; poverty ; microsimulation ; married … tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in … generate on secondary earners. In simulation, the proposed in-work benefits are financed through the abolition of Italian …
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In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …
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effective income support and better incentives to work for low wage households and determines an improvement in inequality …
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responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete … models for policy simulation in terms of producing and interpreting simulation outcomes, outlining an extensive literature of …
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