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The fertility response to cutting child related welfare benefits
Sandner, Malte; Wiynck, Frederik - 2022
Despite long-term interest whether welfare benefits motivate fertility, evidence from research has not been consistent …. This paper contributes new evidence to this debate by investigating the fertility effect of a German welfare reform. The … reform decreased the household income of families on welfare by 18 percent in the first year after the birth of a baby. Using …
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British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption
Fisher, Paul - 2014
The UK Government enacted simplification of its tax credit system in 2003. An inter- esting consequence of the reform is that tax credit payments were split between partners in couples, causing a rare wallet to purse transfer. This paper presents evidence on the effects of the reform on family...
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Welfare Benefit Reforms and Employment
Aloi, Marta - 2017
implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958450
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Welfare benefit reforms and employment
Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel - 2017
implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624217
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Impact of Aadhaar in Welfare Programmes
Khera, Reetika - 2017
Aadhaar, India's ambitious biometric ID project, was portrayed as one that would enhance India's welfare efforts by … promoting inclusion and reducing corruption. From being a voluntary ID, it has become de facto compulsory for most welfare … sources, this paper reviews the impact of Aadhaar on welfare programmes. Far from being inclusive and reducing corruption …
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Welfare against growth gains in post-transition countries : what are the consequences for stability?
Lissowska, Maria - 2014
This paper discusses the underpinnings of the financial crisis of the last decade in post-transition countries. It explores the endogenous reasons of this crisis, and in particular a possible link between delayed and unequal growth of household incomes on the one hand and the instability of the...
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Socially optimal crime and punishment
Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2022
This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected cost of punishment (determined from the probability...
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Take-up and targeting : experimental evidence from SNAP
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - 2018
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take … reduce their welfare gains. …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government …, inequality, and welfare depends on the type of fiscal policy adopted by government to fund it, notably the trade-off between … completely eliminating oil subsidies appears to be the best policy for reducing inequality while increasing growth and welfare …
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