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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes across generations …. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people's attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793492
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On mandatory activation of welfare recipients
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Johansson, Kajsa (contributor) - 2009
This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare recipients have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796298
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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes
Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023
Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388874
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Are young people’s educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?
Barón, Juan David; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010
This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959574
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Pathways of disadvantage : unpacking the intergenerational correlation in welfare
Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2020
-welfare attitudes and academic achievement, in contrast, have a more modest role in transmitting welfare receipt across generations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157456
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Born in the family : preferences for boys and the gender gap in math
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - 2019
We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979664
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The chips are down : the influence of family on children's trust formation
Giulietti, Corrado; Rettore, Enrico; Tonini, Sara - 2016
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493938
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Social insurance networks
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2012
Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534954
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442725
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Intergenerational disadvantage : learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2017
We use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading to intergenerational disadvantage. Our administrative data come from the Australian social security system and provide us with detailed social assistance trajectories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737503