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Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labour Market?

Hoynes, Hilary - 2001

The aim of this paper is to examine the labour market impact of in-work benefit reform in the UK. Evidence is drawn from the impact of earlier reforms in the UK and similar reforms in the US. We focus on the impact on labour supply -- employment and hours of work. In the US a large proportion of...

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Extensive or Intensive Generosity? The Price and Income Effects of Federal Grants

Baicker, Katherine - 2001

When TANF replaced AFDC in 1996 the marginal subsidy for state welfare spending was eliminated. This paper exploits data from a period in the history of AFDC when the structure of federal subsidies and legislative changes allow us to estimate not only the price and income elasticities of federal...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma

Chen, Alex Y. - 2007

Background: Family structure is known to influence children's behavioral, educational, and cognitive outcomes, and … recent studies suggest that family structure affects children's access to health care as well. However, no study has … addressed whether family structure is associated with the care children receive for particular conditions or with their physical …

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Saving and Cohabitation : The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands

Alessie, Rob - 2005

The paper deals with the e.ects of cohabitation of grown children with their parents on household saving, using data from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period gametheoretical model where the child has to decide whether to move out of the parental home. This decision is affected by...

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