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Issues arising in tax and benefit modelling: The case of family credit

Clark, Tom; McCrae, Julian - 2001

Family Credit and ist successor the WFTC, have been central to the British welfare reform debate in reacent years. This debate in informed by tax benefit modelling, yet accurate modelling of Family Credit is fraught with potential problems. The main model input data are found to under-sample...

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The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and material employment

Berlinski, Samuel; Galiani, Sebastian - 2004

We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school attendance and maternal labor supply. Identification relies on a differences-in-differences strategy where we combine...

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Cash by any other name? Evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment

Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2011

Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food stamps) should have no effect on spending patterns. The empirical literature to date does not contradict this proposition. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), a cash...

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Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform

Blundell, Richard; Dias, Monica Costa; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyse both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...

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Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions one gets about trends in the level and inequality of...

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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; de Haas, Ralph; … - 2011

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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Can't wait to get my pension: The effect of raising the female state pension age on income, poverty and deprivation

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl - 2017

2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's incomes, income poverty rates and measures of material deprivation … for lower-income women. These reductions in income lead to the absolute income poverty rate of women aged 60-62, who are … now under the state pension age, increasing by 6.4 percentage points. However, the increased risk of poverty does not …

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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?

Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

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Uniform sharing

Wolf, Alex - 2019

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...

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Understanding the relative generosity of government financial support to families with children

Banks, James; Brewer, Mike - 2002

The principal of horizontal equity can be interpreted as requiring that households with the same pre-transfer incomes and the same consumption needs should receive the same post-transfer incomes. We argue the generosity of government financial support to families with children should be analysed...

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