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The Consequences of Implementing a Child Care Voucher: Evidence from Australia, The Netherlands and USA

Warner, Mildred E.; Gradus, Raymond - 2009

In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...

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Welfare in Village and Towns: Micro-Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean - 2000

We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...

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When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’

van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2006

people into a position of long-term poverty or serious liquidity problems. …

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Childcare Subsidies and Labor Supply: Evidence from a large Dutch Reform

Bettendorf, L.J.H.; Jongen, Egbert L.W.; Muller, Paul - 2012

Over the period 2005-2009 the Dutch government increased childcare subsidies substantially, reducing the average effective parental fee by 50%, and extended subsidies to so-called guestparent care. We estimate the labour supply effect of this reform with a difference-in-differences strategy,...

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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers: Spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes

Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022

Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...

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Explaining the Wealth Holdings of Different Cohorts: Productivity Growth and Social Security

Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999

It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...

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Financial Protection Against Medical Expense

O'Donnell, Owen - 2019

poverty caused by them. It is better thought of as a correction to the measurement of poverty. …

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Welfare Measurement and Poverty Targeting Based on Participatory Wealth Rankings

Wiegand, Martin - 2020

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

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Energy-efficient homes: Effects on poverty, environment and comfort

Roberdel, Vincent P.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Karamychev, … - 2023

Energy efficiency improvements in low income housing are increasingly used as a policy instrument to alleviate poverty …

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Did the Healthcard Program ensure Access to Medical Care for the Poor during Indonesia's Economic Crisis?

Pradhan, Menno; Saadah, Fadia; Sparrow, Robert - 2003

The Indonesian Healthcard program was implemented in response to the economiccrisis, which hit Indonesia in 1998, in order to preserve access to health care servicesfor the poor. The Healthcard provided the households with subsidised care at publichealth care providers, while the providers...

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