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This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefts with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 beneft recipients were randomized to receive a monthly basic income. The experiment lowered...
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In many democracies, unemployed and low-income citizens are less willing to vote. Can unconditional cash transfers weaken the link between income and turnout? We study a unique experiment in Finland, which randomly assigned a sizable group of unemployed to basic income for two years (2017-19)....
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Between 1970 and the early 2000s, there was a revolution in support for the use of field experiments to evaluate social programs. Focusing on the welfare reform studies that helped to speed that transformation in the United States, this chapter describes the major challenges to implementing...
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lower GPAs, experienced reduced well-being and overall education levels, and suffered lower employment and earnings as …
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lower GPAs, experienced reduced well-being and overall education levels, and suffered lower employment and earnings as …
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gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual … understanding of gender-based asymmetries. -- state ; inequality ; difference ; citizenship ; social exclusion ; gender ; poverty …
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the 1870-1930 period. We proxy the gender wage gap with the level of per capita income and the cost of disenfranchisement …. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital …
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We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …
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in income alone, or if there exist gender specific differences in preferences. I exploit two key features of the … to vote depended on both their gender and their household income. Second, the income threshold for suffrage was set … increases the supply of doctors relative to when only rich men had the right to vote. These results are consistent with gender …
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