In Belgium, families with young dependents receive tax reliefs depending on the type of care used. In this paper we analyze the Federal government policy that allows families using formal childcare to deduct their expenses out of their taxable income. For families using parental and informal...

In Belgium, families with young dependents receive tax reliefs depending on the type of care used. In this paper, we analyse the Federal government policy that allows families using formal childcare to deduct their expenses out of their taxable income. For families using parental and informal...

Ce numéro de Regards économiques vise à rappeler aux distraits que l’histoire du recensement de la population se termine en Belgique en 2001, et que même si un nouvel outil statistique est en gestation, bien des réalités spatiales et/ou sociales seront désormais à jamais occultées. La...

The built environment plays a key role in the strategy of “Aging in Place”. Here, we study the influence of the built environment on the health status of elderly people living in Brussels. Using census and geocoded data, we analysed if built environment factors were associated with poor...