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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …
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to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
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better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …
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A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...
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role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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