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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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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 …
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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
approximately 3000 GBP a year per child. We use administrative births microdata and household survey data to estimate the impact of …
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Labour Supply as a Buffer : Evidence from UK Households
Benito, Andrew - 2012
This paper examines labour supply adjustment – both hours worked and participation decisions. We focus on the response of each to financial shocks, employing data from the BHPS. Estimated responses are broadly consistent with models of self-insurance that incorporate labour supply flexibility....
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households : Evidence from Sweden
Hederos Eriksson, Karin - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income …
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
Glick, Peter - 2014
with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.; Walker, Thomas F. - 2015
with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 … years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We found that the probability of a child dropping out of … school increased significantly when the household experienced an illness, death or asset shock. We proposed a test to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185371
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy
De Luca, Giuseppe - 2012
This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned...
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