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among low-educated mothers. We find that the probability of smoking for white and Hispanic low-educated mothers of two or … employ a triple differences plus Fixed-Effects framework to examine the effect of this change on the probability of smoking …
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among low-educated mothers. We find that the probability of smoking for white and Hispanic low-educated mothers of two or … employ a triple differences plus Fixed-Effects framework to examine the effect of this change on the probability of smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104070
Income support for working low income families (the "working poor") is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support working poor households. Labour unions propose the introduction of a general minimum wage, whereas the...
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The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare dependency and encourage work. Both the US and UK have made in-work benefits a key part of their strategy through the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Working Families' Tax...
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This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...
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The goal of this research is to quantify the association between food insecurity and smoking among low-income families … smoking prevalence is higher among low-income families who are food insecure compared to low-income families who are food … secure (43.6 percent versus 31.9 percent). Multivariate analysis reveals that smoking is associated with an increase in food …
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clubs/teams/activities, skipping school, getting into fights, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, using … skipping school, damaging property, and getting into fights among boys. (4) Welfare reform led to increases in smoking and drug …
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This paper examines how cash transfers that are not conditional on employment affect infant health. Leveraging variation in the amount of pandemic-era stimulus and child tax credit payments that families received based on household composition, I find that an additional $100 in transfers reduces...
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which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large …
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