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Evaluating the Chile Solidario program: Results using the Chile Solidario panel and the administrative databases

Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Hojman, Andrés; … - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 129-168

is conducted using a Matching estimator, and we discuss the principles surrounding the potential for this to be a valid … workers in the family and the employment of the head of the family. …

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The correlates of work in a post-AFDC world: the results from a longitudinal state-level analysis

Lewis, Dan; Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Altenbernd, Lisa - 2005

Much of the research that has followed welfare reform and new policies such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has focused on identifying the variations in how different states have put the new policy into practice. Less is known however, about how this new policy affects the...

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Neighborhood effects and housing vouchers

Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - In: Quantitative Economics 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1307-1346

model with estimates of how locations affect adult earnings of children to understand how a voucher policy that restricts … neighborhoods in which voucher-recipients may live affects both the location decisions of households and the adult earnings of … aggregate adult earnings of children of households offered these vouchers. …

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School Health Programs: Education, Health and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults

Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise, Julie - 2021

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999‐reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the availability of health professionals...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001

results show that variation in the unemployment and employment rates across MSAs and states explain the observed relative post …-welfare reform decrease among immigrants, with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment and …

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Crisis and recovery in Argentina: labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics

Khamis, Melanie - 2005

recovery. For instance, the unemployed were more likely to find employment in the informal sector than in the formal sector. In … services, construction and retail contributed most to the movement between the different labor force states of employment …

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The impact of tax and transfer systems on children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - 2005

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal analysis in the European Union, EUROMOD, is used to...

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation: the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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