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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …

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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Ohinata, Asako - 2015

difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all …

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The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements : Evidence from the UK JSA Reform

Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform …

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias - 2015

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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The law and practice relating to pollution control in the United Kingdom

MacLoughlin, James Brian; Forster, M. J. - 1982 - 2. ed.

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Who Gives for Overseas Development?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021

Individuals' donations to overseas charities are an important source of funding for development assistance from rich industrialised countries. But little is known about the nature of these charitable donations. The literature on giving focuses on total donations to all causes and does not...

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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011

The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...

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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development : UK Trends Over a Quarter Century

Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; Pharoah, Cathy; … - 2021

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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