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Welfare activation and youth crime
Bratsberg, Bernt; Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … lowered social assistance take-up we uncover no indication that loss of income support pushed youth into crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893819
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The impact of comprehensive student support on crime : evidence from the Pathways to Education program
Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - 2024
support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways …, mischief, other traffic offenses and Youth Criminal Justice Act offenses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461504
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Unintended consequences of welfare cuts on children and adolescents
Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2024
This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average over the first five years. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050842
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"Might not be a tomorrow" : a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor);  … - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777931
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Catholic schools and bad behavior
Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413864
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Are parental welfare work requirements good for disadvantaged children? : evidence from age-of-youngest-child exemptions
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408828
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Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? : evidence from the UK’s two-child limit
Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022
We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the UK did not receive means-tested child benefits,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172871
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Behavioral responses and welfare reform : evidence from a randomized experiment
Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos - 2017
Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709466
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The employment effects of generous and unconditional cash support
Verlaat, Timo; Todeschini, Federico; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2023
While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study the employment effects of a generous and unconditional transfer targeting low-income families in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229371
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716521