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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
estimate the effect of child-bearing on economic and marital outcomes. The application is motivated by American welfare reform … childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more tenuous. …
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Running hard and falling behind: A welfare analysis of two-earner families
Moore, Robert E.; Kassis, Mary Mathewes; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 3, pp. 237-250
This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a two-earner household. We find evidence...
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The effect of benefits on disability uptake
Brinch, Christian N. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009
I study the effects of the level of disability benefits on disability uptake. Estimation of such effects is difficult because individual levels of disability pension benefits are closely related to individual characteristics that may also affect disability uptake through other mechanisms. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980702
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SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AT THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING SICKNESS ABSENCE BEHAVIOR.
Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth; Vaage, Kjell - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
We investigate whether a worker’s sickness absence is affected by her colleagues’ absences from the workplace. The analysis is based on unique matched employer-employee data for Norwegian schoolteachers for the period 2001 to 2006 with information on different types of absences and multiple...
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H.; Frandsen, Brigham R. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...
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Mixing Welfare and Work: Evidence from the PSID, 1980-87
Chapman, Richard; Duncan, Kevin; Gray, Jerry - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 1, pp. 51-62
Evidence from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) suggests that those with a history of mixing welfare and work … are more likely to continue mixing rather than be in another welfare or labor market state. This finding supports the view … that, without a welfare subsidy, jobs held by working welfare recipients will not provide for self sufficiency. We find no …
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Maternity Rights and Mothers' Return to Work
Burgess, Simon; Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2002
In this paper we use the ALSPAC cohort of 12,000 births to examine the effect of maternity rights on mothers' post-birth return to employment decisions. We aim to disentangle the effects of the terms of maternity rights entitlements from the effects of other factors (such as household wealth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577225
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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) represents one of the largest transfer programs administered by the Canadian government, representing 4.5 percent of federal transfers to individuals. The UCCB – which provides $100 monthly to parents for every child under six years of age –...
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
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