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What Is the Value of the Child and Dependent Care Credit?

Pepin, Gabrielle - 2024

CDCC is of relatively little value in its current form, increases in eligibility rates and conditional benefits under the … disproportionately when measuring benefits as a share of income or child care spending. …

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The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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Does fertility respond to financial incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - 2008

benefits and tax credits among comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. …

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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2009

We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the SA entry rate, rather than by the SA exit rate (which actually declined too). We examine the...

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A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2014-2015 Edition

Cawley, John H. - 2014

This guide, updated for the 2014-15 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and provides links to internet resources. Topics...

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New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.

Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar - 2018

Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a broad measure of real labor costs including such benefit expenditures has become countercyclical during 1982-2014, contrary to the conventional view that labor costs are...

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Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut

Johnston, Andrew C.; Mas, Alexandre - 2020

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...

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The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

Card, David; Johnston, Andrew C.; Leung, Pauline; Mas, … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...

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Universal Credit and Crime

D'Este, Rocco; Harvey, Alex - 2020

We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC rollout across constituencies using monthly data from 2010 to 2019 for England and Wales. We find UC...

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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Haller, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2020

policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate … fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost reductions) of 2.0-2.5 for stricter DI eligibility rules and of 1.3-1.4 for … lower DI benefits. Stricter DI eligibility rules generate lower income losses (earnings + transfers), particularly at the …

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