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Child care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012
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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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … to the poor within each population group (that is, poverty targeted transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331388
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282645
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America?s Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262726
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Child care and the welfare to work transition
Lemke, Robert J.; Witt, Robert; Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001
We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263254
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406
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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence
Nelson, Kenneth - 2009
investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335403
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Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269698
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In-work benefits for married couples: An ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy
De Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
WTC is more effective than the EITC in fighting poverty. In both schemes, the trade-off between labor supply incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287609