Bruijn, Ernst-Jan de; Vethaak, Heike; Koning, Pierre; … - 2023
a cutoff rule used by a Dutch welfare office to determine eligibility to debt relief of welfare debts. We use this … administrative data, we estimate economically small and insignificant effects of debt relief on employment, earnings, welfare receipt … debtors with larger welfare debts. The larger amount of debt relief for this group has probably a stronger potential to …