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existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …
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of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … substantially, and leavers are less likely to return to welfare following reform …
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effects concentrate among middle and lower income households and were attenuated by the reduction of the subsidy …
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It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors –...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 …
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start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
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question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market … outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare.Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …
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