How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...

This paper investigates the causal impact of direct cash transfers on health, well-being, and life satisfaction among adolescents in Russia during the pandemic years. We study an unanticipated introduction of a COVID-19 state support policy for families with children in the form of two one-off...

We analyze changes in poverty from 2005 to 2019. We determine the contribution of tax and benefit changes to poverty change and identify the proportion of poverty change that would have occurred had these policies not changed. We consider six categories of families. We show that even after...

This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...

This study investigates the impact of Indonesia’s flagship conditional cash trans- fer (CCT) program—PKH—on violent crime. Exploiting data from a randomized controlled trial and administrative data from the staggered nationwide program roll-out in combination with different causal...

This study examined parents’ compliance to the terms and conditions among 4Ps beneficiaries and quality of life as beneficiary of the program and its association to profile characteristics. Utilizing a survey questionnaire, 312 parents randomly selected answered thru a face-to-face interview...

Much economic analysis derives policy recommendations based on social welfare criteria intended to model the preferences of a policy maker. Yet, little is known about policy maker’s normative views in a way amenable to this use. In a behavioral experiment, we elicit German legislators’...

The courts are often a key site in the struggle for the protection and enforcement of constitutional rights and accountability. In this article, I draw attention to an important avenue for both the historical and contemporary study of comparative administrative law: the incorporation of the...

We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy is tied to how much inflation it generates, and thereby to monetary‐fiscal adjustments that ultimately finance the transfers. In the monetary regime, taxes increase to finance transfers while in the fiscal regime, inflation rises,...

When income inequality increases when average income levels increase, rises in average income levels might result in inequality costs. This paper develops marginal social welfare measures that account for the possibility that income inequality changes when average income levels change....