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The Policy Context and Infant and Toddler Care in the Welfare Reform Era

Witte, Ann Dryden; Queralt, Magaly; Witt, Robert; … - 2001

We provide descriptive evidence from Miami-Dade County (MDC) in FL and from five representative areas in Massachusetts … Massachusetts, where prices, reimbursements, and regulations are more closely aligned. We find that prices of infant and toddler … in formal care. In contrast, Massachusetts? welfare reform, which imposes neither time limits nor activity requirements …

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Sozialreformen im Vereinigten Königreich

Peter, Waltraut - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 32 (2005) 4, pp. 47-59

Im Jahr 1997 trat New Labour im Vereinigten Königreich mit dem Versprechen an, eine neue Balance zwischen Eigenverantwortung und staatlicher Fürsorge zu schaffen. Eine Modernisierung des Steuer- und Transfersystems sollte sowohl die Arbeitsanreize verbessern und Erwerbschancen für jeden...

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Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net

Low, Hamish W.; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2018

The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States. We use variation by state and across demographic groups to provide reduced form evidence showing that such limits led to a fall in welfare claims (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a...

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Tax Privileges for Families in an International Comparison

Meister, Wolfgang; Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 42-45

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Child Support and Children's Tax Allowances in Selected European Countries

Parsche, Rüdiger; Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 3, pp. 50-54

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Child care and the welfare to work transition

Lemke, Robert J.; Witt, Robert; Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001

. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 …

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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...

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Evaluation of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program, May 1996 - April 2000

Witte, Ann Dryden; Queralt, Magaly; Tauchen, Helen - 2001

We assess the impact of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program (FIP) on the employment and earnings of current and former cash assistance recipients. We use administrative data from many sources, including data from state cash assistance records and from employer reports of employment and...

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Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; Ratcliffe, Anita; Smith, Sarah - 2008

In 1999 the UK government made major reforms to the system of child-contingent benefits, including the introduction of Working Families' Tax Credit and an increase in means-tested Income Support for families with children. Between 1999-2003 government spending per-child on these benefits rose by...

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Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children...

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