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The effects of welfare time limits on access to financial resources: evidence from the 2010s
Pepin, Gabrielle - 2020
Needy Families (TANF) program within the United States. TANF mandated 60-month lifetime time limits for federal cash … lifetime limit did not bind in all cases. In recent years, however, several states imposed TANF time limits for the first time … decrease annual TANF participation by 22 percent and annual transfer income by 6 percent. Consistent with binding TANF work …
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Welfare reform and the intergenerational transmission of dependence
Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos; Ziliak, James P. - 2017
We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey period 1968–2013 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716174
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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives
Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017
How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...
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The "family 500+" child allowance and female labour supply in Poland
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914242
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The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881213
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Income support to families with children in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021
Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in providing income support to families with children. In...
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Sliding into safety net participation : a unified analysis across multiple programs
Wu, Derek; Zhang, Jonathan - 2023
Recipients of government transfers are economically disadvantaged, yet little is known about how their circumstances evolve leading up to program receipt. Using twenty-five years of survey data as well as administrative health records, we establish three new stylized facts around enrollment in...
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Are parental welfare work requirements good for disadvantaged children? : evidence from age-of-youngest-child exemptions
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408828
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Peer effects in program participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009773445
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Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system : an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech...
Avram, Silvia; Militaru, Eva - 2015
We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...
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