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This article tries to analyse the effects of old age and disability benefits on women's decisions to allocate time to … among all women, while means-tested benefits have no significant effect on poor women's behaviour, and (ii) providing … services is more efficient than cash transfers in reducing women's probability of allocating many hours to adult care …
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Using an unusually comprehensive dataset from rural Ethiopia, we look for systematic relationships between bargaining power and various dimensions of intrahousehold welfare. Our results confrm some of the results previously found in the literature. We find that the relative nutrition of spouses...
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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...
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I show that among women likely to use welfare, movers move to higher-benefit states. I also find that the probability …
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In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
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