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Drivers of Change : How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform
Abou Daher, Chaza; Field, Erica Marie; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
economic rights, as has been posited in the literature. The results underscore the importance of intra-household responses to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372471
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The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit
Enriquez, Brandon; Jones, Damon; Tedeschi, Ernest V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
among households who qualify for varying relative increases in household income, as a result of their income level and … household size. We do not find strong evidence of a change in labor supply for families receiving the credit. The results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250128
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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388791
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The Global Life-Cycle Optimizer – Analyzing Fiscal Policy's Potential to Dramatically Distort Labor Supply and Saving
Brumm, Johannes; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Krause, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Fiscal policy in the U.S. and other countries renders intertemporal budgets non-differentiable, nonconvex, and discontinuous. Consequently, assessing work and saving responses to policy requires global optimization. This paper develops the Global Life-Cycle Optimizer (GLO), a stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528375
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Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply : Evidence from California
Goldin, Jacob; Homonoff, Tatiana; Lal, Neel A.; Lurie, Ithai - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The largest tax-based social welfare programs in the US limit their benefits to taxpayers with labor market income. Eliminating these work requirements would better target transfers to the neediest families but risks attenuating tax-based incentives to work. We study changes in labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528385
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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance : Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
Boyle, Melissa A. - 2014
decrease in overall household work hours, financial incentives such as credit constraints, target income levels, and the need … expansion. Our findings suggest that although household labor supply may decrease because of the income effect, wives' labor … strongest for wives with lower education levels and lower levels of household wealth. Moreover, wives with employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458296
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernández, Raquel - 2014
During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefitted and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458415
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Baum, Charles L. - 2013
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's first in the nation government-mandated paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458922
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard - 2013
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459655
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457909