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This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...
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children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …
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children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703435
There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...
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An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic … distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of child-parent proximity is vitally important, as it impacts on issues …
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parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406
parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768161
parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703539
There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296600
Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children … engagement. Both exercises reveal a significant negative relationship between growing up in a non-intact family and children … their children's political attitudes and orientations. In this paper, we evaluate this hypothesis on the basis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531744