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 …

literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings-related benefit that is granted for a … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before …

human capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal child-care with maternal care. We conclude that …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

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

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

and employment of welfare recipients in Maryland and Missouri, 1991-2004. We find that there has been only modest change … of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in …