Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,234
Cover Image
Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon John - 2015
the advanced world. By building on earlier research, as well as employing the UN ForFITS model we are able to provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026867
Cover Image
The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis : Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834572
Cover Image
Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-Being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099771
Cover Image
Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
Gong, Xiaodong - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104958
Cover Image
Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra E. - 2012
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106633
Cover Image
Beyond Additionality : Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Catozzella, Alessandra - 2014
simultaneity between subsidy allocation and the qualitative composition of the innovative output, as well as the endogeneity of … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067882
Cover Image
Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco - 2016
start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001335
Cover Image
Cash-for-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development
Collischon, Matthias - 2020
question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare.Exploiting a date-of-birth cut … development at age six. Our findings imply that the subsidy accrued almost completely as windfall gains to families who would not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833244
Cover Image
Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms
Howell, Sabrina T - 2020
This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings and other U.S. Census Bureau datasets. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842047
Cover Image
Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off : Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy
Andersen, Asbjørn - 2020
We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income inequality. Causal effects are identified based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843153