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Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2013

, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance of welfare …

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Who was affected by new welfare reform strategies? : microdata estimates from Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 14, pp. 1395-1413

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New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada

Berg, Nathan; Gabel, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

about the roles of different policy tools in accounting for declines in welfare participation. Work requirements, diversion …

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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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An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Magnet Debate Using the Nlsy

Levine, Phillip B.; Zimmerman, David J. - 1999

This paper examines the extent to which differences in welfare generosity across states leads to interstate migration. Using microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) between 1979 and 1992, we employ a quasi-experimental design that utilizes the categorical eligibility of...

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The Intergenerational Correlation in Afdc Participation : Welfare Trap or Poverty Trap?

Levine, Phillip B.; Zimmerman, David J. - 2014

Several recent studies have shown that daughters whose mothers have participated in the welfare program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are themselves more likely to participate in AFDC when they head their own household. Other studies have shown that the earnings of parents and...

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Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation : Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments

Choi, Eleanor Jawon - 2018

This paper assesses the ability of a structural labor supply model to predict the impacts of a welfare policy change by studying two state welfare reform experiments conducted in Minnesota (MN) and Vermont (VT) during the mid-1990s. I estimate and evaluate a static discrete choice model of labor...

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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 Republic

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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Universal child allowances in 14 middle income countries : options for policy and poverty reduction

Evans, Martin; Hidalgo, Alejandra; Wang, Mei - 2018

This paper uses data from 14 Middle Income Countries in the Luxembourg Income Study database to examine the position of children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers from state social protection systems compared to...

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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...

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