caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …

Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …

reforms in targeting social support, especially housing benefits, extending unemployment insurance and introducing a means …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which …. Microeconomic simulations of taxes and benefits suggest room for augmenting these policies with adjustments to benefits and tax …

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … insurance is “basic security”, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …

any, impact on receipt of other measured government benefits, including SSDI. …

to estimate the effect of child-bearing on marital status, poverty status, and welfare receipt for the population of … mothers with two or more children. The application is motivated by American welfare reform, which penalizes further … childbearing by welfare mothers on the grounds that additional childbearing makes continued poverty and welfare receipt more likely …