Search Results - subject_exact:"Income support"

What did we learn from the North American income maintenance experiments? : new data and evidence on household behavior and labor supply

Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2025

We re-assess the consequences of a NIT for two-parent families, utilizing hitherto untapped data. The Gary and Seattle experiments fail balancing tests. In New Jersey, Denver and Manitoba we estimate far greater labor supply responses than the current consensus, with remarkable consistency in...

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What did we learn from the North American income maintenance experiments? : new data and evidence on household behavior and labor supply

Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2025

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The non-take-up of means-tested income supplementation schemes

Wever, Marc - 2025

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Enhanced unemployment insurance benefits in the United States during COVID-19 : equity and efficiency

Valletta, Robert G.; Yilma, Mary - 2025

We assess the effects of the historically unprecedented expansion of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The adverse economic impacts of the pandemic, notably the pattern of job losses and earnings reductions, were disproportionately borne by lower-income...

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Enhanced unemployment insurance benefits in the United States during COVID-19 : equity and efficiency

Valletta, Robert G.; Yilma, Mary - 2024 - Minor revisions: December 2023, May 2024

Edition: Minor revisions: December 2023, May 2024

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Social transfers utilisation among migrants and Irish-born in Ireland

Alamir, Anousheh; Barrett, Alan; Maître, Bertrand - 2026

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Devotion without action : Islam, charity, and poverty in comparative perspective

Abedifar, Pejman; Eslami, Mohammad - 2026 - This draft: December, 2025

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2026

Integration agreements (IA) outline the efforts the jobseeker should undertake to find employment and specify the services that the caseworker would provide to assist them in their job search. The agreements include a declaration of legal consequences, and punitive benefit sanctions could be...

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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Anchors in the storm: can emergency cash transfers protect human capital during economic crises?

Castellanos-Rodríguez, Luis Eduardo - 2026

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Racial heterogeneity in consumption responses to the economic impact payment

Goto, Yulina; Nakajima, Makoto - 2026

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Cash transfers and labour supply under structural unemployment

Köhler, Tim; Stanwix, Benjamin; Bhorat, Haroon - 2026

How effective are cash transfers at improving labour market outcomes in settings characterized by severe job scarcity and constraints to self-employment? This paper provides evidence of the labour market effects of South Africa's Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, a low-value, unconditional...

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Traps and transfers

Jee, Edward - 2026

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The long-run effects of conditional cash transfers : the case of Bolsa Família in Brazil

Laguinge, Luis; Gasparini, Leonardo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2026

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes aim to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by fostering human capital accumulation among children in vulnerable households. However, due to data limitations, evidence on their long-run effects remains scarce. This paper contributes to...

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Social protection in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Oosthuizen, Morné - 2026

South Africa has a relatively well-developed social protection system for a middle-income country. Despite its roots in the country's racially discriminatory past, the system has been repurposed post-apartheid to address deep poverty and severe inequality. This paper explores key characteristics...

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Labor market dynamics and public assistance programs : evidence from an estimated model of SNAP participation

Abrahams, Scott; Flabbi, Luca; Mabli, James - 2026

We develop and estimate a dynamic model of household labor supply and SNAP participation that explains two empirical puzzles: incomplete program take-up despite substantial benefits, and minimal employment effects of SNAP work requirements despite the constraints they impose. Our model...

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Social protection in Chile : between growth and redistribution

Zapata-Román, Gabriela; Barrientos, Armando - 2026

Chile combines high income levels and strong human development outcomes with persistent inequality. This paper examines the country's social protection matrix, focusing on its institutional configuration, financial structure, and main outcomes. The analysis distinguishes three core components-...

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The insurance value of public insurance against idiosyncratic income risk

Busch, Christopher; Madera, Rocio - 2026

The tax and transfer system partially insures households against individual income risk. We build a framework to assess the size and (welfare) value of this partial insurance, which is based on exploiting distributional differences between household gross income and disposable income. Our...

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The insurance value of public insurance against idiosyncratic income risk

Busch, Christopher; Madera, Rocío - 2026

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Social Assistance in Malaysia : Who Benefits, and Who Misses Out

Wan, Ya Shin; Cheng, Natalie Fang Ling - 2026

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of who benefits and who misses out on social assistance (SA) transfers in Malaysia. As the first in a two-part series on SA, the paper uses data from the Household Income Survey (HIS) of 2019 and 2022 to assess targeting outcomes and the adequacy of...

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The welfare state myth : how low-tax countries offer the world's best welfare

Fölster, Stefan; Sanandaji, Nima - 2026

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A practical framework for behavioral microsimulation using external evidence

Jia, Zhiyang; Skagseth, Snorre; Thoresen, Thor Olav; … - 2026

When structural labor supply models are unavailable or impractical, the paper proposes a practical method for incorporating behavioral responses into static taxbenefit microsimulation models. Using elasticity estimates from the literature, the proposed external evidence procedure offers a...

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2026

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

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The Menopause "Penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2025

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The menopause "penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - 2024 - Current version: 15 March 2024

Edition: Current version: 15 March 2024

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Social protection policy in Colombia

Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Peña-Tenjo, Nicolás; … - 2026

Colombia has a complex legal framework meant to protect the population against basic risks through a combination of contributory and non-contributory social insurance. The population is almost perfectly split between them, with eligibility to participate in the latter determined by poverty....

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The hidden benefits bill : how universal credit claimants get £10 billion in extra benefits

Elsom, Caroline - 2026

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Public support for welfare and redistributive policies in Ireland

Capistrano, Daniel; Maître, Bertrand; Russell, Helen - 2026

The current report presents findings of a research project that explored attitudes towards welfare and redistributive policies among Irish residents. Public support for the welfare state is an important foundation for democratic governments to pursue the policies needed to alleviate poverty in...

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Dreams and small means : career aspirations of children in the Philippine 4Ps Program

Melad, Kris Ann M.; Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Diola, … - 2026

This study examines the career aspirations of economically disadvantaged Filipino children participating in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Philippines' flagship conditional cash transfer program. Using data from 9,958 children aged 10 to 25 collected through the Fourth Wave...

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Unemployment, benefits and household spending : new evidence from UK bank account data

Delestre, Isaac; Waters, Tom - 2026

The risk of a worker falling into unemployment represents one of the most important threats to the stability of households' finances - both in terms of lower spending (and hence living standards) and in terms of a greater degree of financial distress (such as the accumulation of unmanageable...

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Charity hazard in climate adaptation : the effect of anticipatory cash transfers on demand for weather insurance

Roeckert, Julian; Mogge, Lukas; Fluhrer, Svenja; … - 2026

This study examines whether receiving anticipatory cash transfers during an extreme winter affects households’ demand for index-based livestock insurance. We exploit a randomized field experiment conducted during the 2020/21 winter disaster in western Mongolia and combine household panel...

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Replication report: a comment on "Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes"

Hartmann, Sven Alfred; Huang, Yue - 2026

This replication study revisits Attanasio et al. (2015), which examines the effects of conditional cash transfers on preventive health care utilization and child health outcomes in Colombia. Using the original data and replication files, we successfully reproduce all the main tables and figures...

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A comment on "Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia"

Auer, Tobias; Ruedin, Didier - 2026

Cahyadi et al. (2020) examine the cumulative effects of conditional cash transfer programs in Indonesia after 2 and 6 years. They find beneficial effects for several of the indicators targeted by the cash transfer programme. They find a substantial increase in childcare using trained...

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The evolution of income inequality in the United States, its consequences, and some policy measures

Akram, Tanweer; Mamun, Khawaja - 2026

This paper discusses the key concepts and main stylized facts concerning household real income and income inequality in the United States in recent decades. It explains the widely used summary measures of income distribution, which reveal that income inequality in the US has been steadily...

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Do fiscal transfers stick under fiscal stress? : evidence of the flypaper effect from Manipur, North-Eastern Region of India

Jacob, Gaidimlung K. - 2026

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Parental migration and unconditional cash transfers for education : evidence from the smart Indonesia program

Destefanis, Alessia; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2026

This paper examines how parental migration interacts with unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) for education by analyzing Indonesia's Smart Indonesia Program (PIP), which provides educational grants to children from poor households. Using a difference-in-differences approach and nationally...

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Settlement of litigation may increase or decrease deterrence and social welfare

Shavell, Steven - 2026

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Coverage or Intensity of Support? Adaptive Social Protection to Reduce Disaster-Related Poverty

Middelanis, Robin; Jafino, Bramka Arga; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro - 2026

Disasters due to natural hazards pose a significant threat to people’s well-being and increase the risk of poverty, particularly in vulnerable populations. This paper provides a novel global estimate of poverty due to disasters, showing that 25.6 million people are at risk of poverty due to...

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Social protection in Bangladesh : policies, practices, and lessons

Raihan, Selim; Khan, Fariha - 2026

Evolving from post-independence emergency relief to a diverse range of programmes addressing poverty, food insecurity, and lifecycle vulnerabilities, Bangladesh has made significant progress in social protection provision over the years. This paper critically examines the evolution, coverage,...

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Social protection in Viet Nam : an updated overview

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do Minh - 2026

While Viet Nam has been remarkably successful in poverty reduction, the country is faced with various challenges ranging from uneven pockets of poverty, regional inequality, low labour productivity, and high informality rates, to a fast-ageing society. We offer an updated overview of the social...

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Social protection in Vietnam : an updated overview

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do Minh - 2026

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Regimi locali di povertà alla prova del Covid-19 : la governance della povertà alimentare a Milano e Torino

Ferracci, Marco - 2026

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2026

We evaluate the Education Maintenance Allowance, a large conditional cash transfer scheme that paid low-income teenagers in England to remain in education beyond age 16. Using the staggered national roll-out of the programme and linked administrative data tracking education, earnings, welfare...

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2025

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The effects of social pensions on monetary and time transfers among the poor

Olivera, Javier; Iparraguirre, Yadiraah - 2026

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Social security transfers and fiscal sustainability in Turkey : evidence from 1984-2024

Diler, Huriye Gonca; Barın, Nurgül E.; Özen, Ercan; … - 2026

Social security systems constitute a structurally significant component of public finance in developing economies and often generate persistent fiscal pressures through budgetary transfers. Demographic transformation, widespread informality in labor markets, and weaknesses in contribution-based...

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Raising Children Alone in Latin America and the Caribbean : Strong Mothers and Weak Social Assistance

Cuesta, Laura; De Hoop, Jacobus; Nopo, Hugo - 2026

Studies across countries find that single-mother households are socioeconomically disadvantaged. However, the heterogeneity of these households is regularly overlooked in the literature, with lone-mother households (with only one female adult) frequently undifferentiated from households in which...

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Navigating Social Assistance : Insights and Experiences of Public Housing Residents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Wan, Ya Shin; Ali, Sarah - 2026

This policy paper aims to understand the barriers faced by urban poor Malaysians in Kuala Lumpur in accessing SA, as well as their experiences in navigating the SA system. This case study focuses on the ease of access to SA of residents in PPR, who comprise a majority of urban poor Malaysians,...

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Multiple program participation in the safety net : incidence, impediments, and implications

Cholli, Neil A.; Wu, Derek - 2026

Multiple program participation is a defining feature of the U.S. safety net, with half of recipients enrolling in two or more programs. Yet most research examines programs in isolation, missing the intensity of safety net attachment. We show implications of a multipleprogram framework on...

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Small benefit cuts and earnings responses : evidence from Japan’s public assistance reform

Matsumoto, Kodai - 2026

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Does Social Assistance Reach the Most Vulnerable in Settings with Forced Displacement? Evidence from the Central African Republic

Lain, Jonathan; Hoogeveen, Johannes - 2026

Poverty reduction rarely progresses in countries affected by conflict and forced displacement. Mechanisms to target social assistance to reach the poorest households in such settings are therefore badly needed. This paper explores patterns of social assistance targeting using unique household...

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Does school social work work? : the impact of school social workers on youth crime and education

Drescher, Katharina - 2026

I study the impact of school social workers on youth crime and education. As a political reaction to a school rampage, a large German state introduced funding for school social workers, resulting in a strong increase in their numbers. Using the spatial and temporal variation in its...

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Cash transfers and employment among Syrian refugees : evidence from rule-based eligibility in Türkiye

Fatima, Freeha; Nas Özen, Efşan; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2026

We examine whether eligibility for a large-scale humanitarian cash transfer program affects employment outcomes among displaced populations. Exploiting deterministic demographic thresholds governing eligibility for the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Türkiye, a nationwide unconditional...

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Evaluation des Persönlichen Budgets

Tolmein, Oliver; Sommer, Jörn - 2026

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Poverty alleviation relocation in China : theory, policy and practice

Qiu, Huanguang; Leng, Ganxiao; Liu, Mingyue; Wang, Sangui - 2026

This is an Open access book which examines the historical evolution of poverty alleviation relocation policy and summarizes its implementation. It highlights typical practices and examples from different regions, focusing on community management, industrial support, and employment support. The...

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Unconditional transfers under fiscal federalism : distributional trade-offs in Switzerland

Oschwald, Patrick; Anderl, Robin; Kirn, Tanja - 2026

This article examines how Switzerland's decentralized welfare structure shapes the outcomes of Basic Income reforms. Using SWISSMOD, a static microsimulation model based on EUROMOD, we simulate unconditional transfer schemes of varying generosity at federal and cantonal levels, combined with...

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Unconditional transfers under fiscal federalism : distributional trade-offs in Switzerland

Oschwald, Patrick; Anderl, Robin; Kirn, Tanja - 2026

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Transfers, segregation, and local labour markets : evidence from three decades of declining transfers

Nordin, Martin - 2026

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Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain

Hernández, Adrián; Cantó, Olga; Picos, Fidel - 2026

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