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question by exploring survey data from 21 European countries and leveraging variation in citizenship laws across countries …-significant effects on the latter group. We then further explore the heterogeneity of returns to citizenship in a Marginal Treatment … obtain citizenship, suggesting that a relaxation of eligibility constraints would yield benefits for both migrants and host …
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This paper studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children from the effect of child support liability. We...
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Im Rahmen der Gesamtevaluation der familienbezogenen Leistungen untersuchte das Allensbacher Institut mit zwei Akzeptanzanalysen 2010 und 2011 die Bekanntheit und die Bewertung von 16 staatlichen Leistungen zur Familienförderung sowie die Muster der Inanspruchnahme. Die qualitativen und...
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This article uses the Luxembourg Income Study datasets from circa 2004 to analyse the contribution child maintenance makes to the reduction of child poverty. The countries compared are Canada, UK, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland representing countries with different child...
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This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some states require no child support in joint custody cases,...
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This study uses the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS data) from 2013 to study 1) the contribution of child maintenance to the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child maintenance for those receiving it, and 3) the extent to...
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The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have responded to changes in the amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results...
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Summary This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children.We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of women. Comparing behavioral changes of women with children with...
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In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment program (FIP), a program similar to the Federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program created in 1996. This paper examines the experiences of individuals and...
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