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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...
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Measuring the Impacts of Covid-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
Shen, Kailing - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...
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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia
Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022
Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241706
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Giuliano, Laura M. - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...
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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...
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Slow Traffic, Fast Food : The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
B, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in highway traffic data in Los Angeles. We find that on days...
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