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Welfare rules, incentives, and family structure

Moffitt, Robert A.; Phelan, Brian J.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2015

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

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A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …

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Child care assistance : are subsidies or tax credits better?

Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012

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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The Child Tax Credit over time by family type : benefit eligibility and poverty

Brehm, Margaret E.; Malkova, Olga - 2023

We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type …, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By 2017, disparities by family type mostly disappear, as eligibility and anti …

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Employment and labor supply responses to the Child Tax Credit expansion : theory and evidence

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Strain, Michael R. - 2024

The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Our review of available...

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Child poverty in English-speaking countries

Micklewright, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs : balancing redistribution and parental work incentives

Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

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Labour supply and childcare for British mothers in two-parent families : a structural approach

Parera-Nicolau, Antonia (contributor); … - 2005

We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for British two parent families, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce...

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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 …

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Families, taxes and the welfare system

Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then …

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