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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023

We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...

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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent...

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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households

Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and females. Our results using the Suriname...

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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform … introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … might have increased their working hours as a result of the 2008 reform. To my knowledge, the present investigation is the …

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Sexual orientation and household decision making : same-sex couples’ balance of power and labor supply choices

Oreffice, Sonia - 2008

I estimate how intra-household bargaining affects gay and lesbian couples’ labor supplies, investigating their similarity to heterosexual decision-making, in a collective household framework. Data from the 2000 US Census show that couples of all types exhibit a significant response to...

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Household responses to individual shocks : disability and labor supply

Gallipoli, Giovanni; Turner, Laura - 2009

What are idiosyncratic shocks and how do people respond to them? This paper starts from the observation that idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …

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Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers

Goll, David; Joyce, Robert; Waters, Tom - 2023

Policy-makers have increasingly turned to ‘in-work transfers’ to boost incomes among poorer workers and strengthen work incentives. One attraction of these is that labour supply elasticities are typically greatest at the extensive margin. Because in-work transfers are normally subject to...

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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data

Leune, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs

Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024

A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...

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