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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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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Kurowska, Anna - 2015

In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in...

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Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families : A Structural Approach

Parera-Nicolau, Antonia; Mumford, Karen - 2021

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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Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Del Boca, Daniela - 2014

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the cost effectiveness of unrestricted, restricted, and...

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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Redmond, Paul - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment …

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What Determines Family Structure?

Blau, David - 2010

to determine the family structure experienced by the children of these women: living with the biological mother and the … available to men and women have substantial effects on family structure for children of black and Hispanic mothers, but not for … whites. The tax treatment of children also affects family structure. Implementation of welfare reform and passage of …

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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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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods

Cremer, Helmuth - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...

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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Moffitt, Robert A. - 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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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022

This paper studies intergenerational mobility the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of …

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