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Alleinerziehende 1,194 Single-parent family 1,194 USA 401 United States 368 Weibliche Arbeitskräfte 244 Women workers 244 Mothers 238 Mütter 238 Familienleistungsausgleich 199 Family benefits 199 Social security benefits 185 Öffentliche Sozialleistungen 185 Arbeitsangebot 183 Labour supply 181 Großbritannien 174 Children 167 Kinder 167 Armut 162 United Kingdom 159 Poverty 147 Familie 143 Family 137 Deutschland 133 Germany 114 Alleinerziehende Mutter 112 Child care 78 Frauen 78 Kinderbetreuung 78 Women 78 Haushaltseinkommen 76 Household income 76 Welfare reform 69 Sozialpolitik 68 Sozialreform 67 Familienökonomik 62 Family economics 62 Welfare recipients 62 Ehe 60 Marriage 60 Sozialleistungsempfänger 60
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Article in journal 457 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 457 Graue Literatur 406 Non-commercial literature 406 Arbeitspapier 333 Working Paper 333 Aufsatz im Buch 62 Book section 62 Amtsdruckschrift 50 Government document 50 Hochschulschrift 32 Thesis 28 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 15 Collection of articles of several authors 13 Sammelwerk 13 Collection of articles written by one author 12 Sammlung 12 Statistik 11 Aufsatzsammlung 8 Statistics 8 Konferenzschrift 7 Bibliografie enthalten 6 Bibliography included 6 Conference proceedings 4 Mehrbändiges Werk 4 Multi-volume publication 4 Advisory report 3 Bibliographie 3 Gutachten 3 Rezension 3 Commentary 2 Kommentar 2 Universitätsschrift 2 Beispielsammlung 1 Bericht 1 Bibliografie 1 Biographie 1 Elektronischer Datenträger 1 Forschungsbericht 1 Gesetz 1
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English 1,113 German 127 Undetermined 38 French 26 Swedish 6 Spanish 5 Danish 4 Norwegian 4 Polish 4 Italian 3 Czech 1 Hungarian 1 Dutch 1
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Meyer, Bruce D. 22 Tekin, Erdal 19 Francesconi, Marco 17 Walker, Ian 15 Sullivan, James X. 14 Ermisch, John 13 Jenkins, Stephen 13 Brewer, Mike 12 Flood, Lennart 12 Kaestner, Robert 12 Waldfogel, Jane 12 Siedler, Thomas 11 Wright, Robert E. 11 Duncan, Greg J. 10 Hoynes, Hilary W. 10 Kaushal, Neeraj 10 Bingley, Paul 9 Corman, Hope 9 Del Boca, Daniela 9 Hurd, Michael D. 9 Moffitt, Robert A. 9 Winkler, Anne E. 9 Duncan, Alan S. 8 González, Libertad 8 Lacroix, Guy 8 McLanahan, Sara 8 Rosenbaum, Dan T. 8 Aaberge, Rolf 7 Case, Anne 7 Dorn, David 7 Eissa, Nada 7 Fitzsimons, Emla 7 Haan, Peter 7 Hoffman, Saul D. 7 Klaauw, Wilbert van der 7 Knoef, Marike 7 Mesnard, Alice 7 Reiso, Katrine Holm 7 Autor, David H. 6 Blau, David 6
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National Bureau of Economic Research 37 Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt 5 OECD 4 USA / Bureau of the Census 4 Australia / Dept. of Social Security / Research and Statistics Branch 3 Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung 3 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 3 Australien / Department of Social Security 2 Centre d'Etudes du Commerce 2 Europäische Kommission 2 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2 Johannes Kepler Universität Linz / Institut für Soziologie 2 John F. Kennedy School of Government 2 Kanada 2 Nationalekonomiska Institutionen <Göteborg> 2 Polen / Główny Urząd Statystyczny 2 Russell Sage Foundation 2 USA / Committee on Ways and Means / Subcommittee on Human Resources 2 Universität Wien / Institut für Soziologie 2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Riedmüller-Glatzer-Infratest <Berlin> 1 Australien / Child Support Consultative Group 1 Australien / Department of Employment, Education and Training 1 Australien / Department of Health, Housing and Community Services 1 Barnard College / Economics Department 1 Brandenburg / Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit und Familie 1 Budrich UniPress 1 Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte 1 Canada Employment and Immigration Advisory Council 1 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities <Washington, DC> 1 Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques <Differdingen> 1 Child Welfare League of America 1 Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies 1 Combat Poverty Agency 1 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend 1 Editura Lumen, Department of Economics 1 Europäisches Parlament / Generaldirektion Interne Politikbereiche der Union / Direktion Bürgerrechte und Konstitutionelle Angelegenheiten 1 Evangelische Akademie Loccum 1 Family Policy Studies Centre <London> 1 Hanns Seidel Stiftung 1 IRS – Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (Milano, Italy) 1
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Discussion paper series / IZA 49 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 46 NBER working paper series 37 Journal of human resources : JHR 30 Demography : a publication of the Population Association of America ; the statistical study of human populations 27 NBER Working Paper 24 IZA Discussion Paper 23 Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & economic inequalities 21 Feminist economics 17 LIS working paper series 17 Journal of population economics 13 Working paper series / Luxembourg Income Study 12 Review of Economics of the Household 11 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 10 The American economic review 8 The economic journal : the journal of the Royal Economic Society 8 Canadian public policy : a journal for the discussion of social and economic policy in Canada 7 Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies 7 Journal of public economics 7 Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 7 Melbourne Institute working paper series 7 SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research / German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), DIW Berlin 7 Working papers in economics 7 Applied economics 6 Eastern economic journal 6 IAB regional / IAB Nord : Berichte und Analysen 6 Labour economics : official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists 6 Research paper series / Analytical Studies, Statistics Canada 6 The social security review / Background-discussion paper 6 Upjohn Institute working papers 6 CESifo working papers 5 DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 5 ISER working paper series 5 Internationale Revue für soziale Sicherheit 5 Journal of labor economics 5 National tax journal 5 Review of social economy : publication of the Association for Social Economics 5 The American journal of economics and sociology 5 The Canadian journal of economics 5 The economic record : er 5
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The relationship between single motherhood, employment and poverty
Brady, David; Finnigan, Ryan; Hübgen, Sabine - 2022
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Single parents competing in a dual-earner society : leveling the playing field
Nieuwenhuis, Rense - 2022
This study set out to understand the poverty risks of single parents in the context of the rise of the dual-earner household. Data from the LIS database were used to analyze individuals and households from 18 OECD countries in the period 1984 to 2010. There were to main findings. The first is...
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The accumulation of disadvantage : how motherhood and relationship breakdown influence married and single mothers' economic outcomes
Harkness, Susan - 2022
This study examines how earnings penalties to motherhood combine with the cost of partner absence to affect single mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to 2015 and fixed-effect models with individual-specific...
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Providing, performing and protecting : the importance of work identities in negotiating conflicting work-family ideals as a single mother
Radcliffe, Laura; Cassell, Catherine; Malik, Fatima - In: British journal of management 33 (2022) 2, pp. 890-905
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Single mothers' income in twelve rich nations : differences in disadvantage across the distribution
Harkness, Susan - 2022
I examine how single motherhood affects income at different quantiles of the distribution in twelve rich countries. Using harmonised data from the Luxembourg Income Study, I show how the distribution of income for single-mother headed households differs to that of coupleheaded households with...
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The effects of unemployment among single mothers on adolescent children's mental health
Kühn, Mine; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Metsä-Simola, Niina; … - 2022
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Dopady pandemie covidu-19 na sólo rodiče
Höhne, Sylva; Paloncyová, Jana; Svobodová, Kamila - Výzkumný Ústav Práce a Sociálních Věcí <Prag> - 2022
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Lived experiences of adolescent boys who have absent fathers : a phenomenological approach
Phasha, Kgethego Terrance; Calvin, Makhubele Jabulani; … - In: International Journal of Research in Business and … 11 (2022) 5, pp. 388-393
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Two decades of poverty reduction politics in Canada : better for single parent families and single working age adults?
Notten, Geranda; Tuz Zohora, Fatima; Plante, Charles; … - 2022
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Single mothers' income in twelve rich nations : differences in disadvantage across the distribution
Harkness, Susan - 2022
Previous research has shown single mothers to be less well-off and at higher risk of poverty than mothers in couples. In this article, I extend current research by examining how single motherhood affects income at different quantiles of the distribution in twelve rich nations. Using harmonised...
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Structural racism, family structure, and black-white inequality in poverty : the differential impact of the legacy of slavery among single mother & married parent households
Baker, Regina S.; O'Connell, Heather A. - 2022
Objective: To assess whether an indicator of structural racism - the legacy of slavery - impacts racial inequality in poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an...
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The Effects of Child Health on Marital Status
Corman, Hope; Kaestner, Robert - 2022
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family structure within an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey's Child Health Supplement, with a sample of about 9,000 families to test whether having an...
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The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families
Corinth, Kevin; Meyer, Bruce; Wu, Derek - 2022
This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and administrative data, implementing recommendations of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID),...
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The social care-taking of the city-kids : determinants for day-care attendance in early twentieth century southern Sweden
Elwert, Annika; Quaranta, Luciana - 2021
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Do changes in employment and hours worked contribute to a decreasing in the mental health of single mothers during a period of welfare reform in the UK? : a longitudinal analysis (...
Simpson, Julija; Bambra, Clare; Brown, Heather W. - 2021
We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation framework to explore if reductions in benefit income led to a...
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Welfare versus work under a Negative Income Tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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On the optimal reform of income support for single parents
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2021
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Examining low-income single-mother families' experiences with family benefit packages during and after the Great Recession in the United States
Chang, Yu-Ling; Wu, Chi-Fang - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-19
The recent economic recession triggered by the global pandemic has renewed scholarly interest in the role of social welfare systems in supporting economically vulnerable families when they experience employment instability. This article unpacks the patterns of the cash and in-kind components of...
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Two decades of welfare reforms in Australia: how did they affect single mothers and their children?
Gendre, Alexandra de; Schurer, Stefanie; Zhang, Huyue - 2021
Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them heavily reliant on government transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers and the development of their children over the past two...
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Transition from a two-parent to a single-parent household and child development
Kim, Inkyung - 2021
As Korea is expected to see an increase in the share of single-parent families, this study analyzes the impact of a family transition from a two-parent to single-parent home on child development. The level of development is measured based on health, self-regulated learning, emotional disorders,...
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How causal is separation? : lessons learnt from endogenous switching regression models for single mothers' economic strain in Germany
Birkeneder, Antonia; Boll, Christina - 2021
Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525...
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The single motherhood penalty as a gender penalty
Moullin, Sophie; Harkness, Susan - 2021
Recent analysis has suggested that poverty rates, and their variation across rich countries, is driven much less by the prevalence of certain risks than by the poverty penaltyattached to the risks. Focusing on single motherhood as a poverty risk, it is claimed the penalty attached to it is...
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Welfare versus work under a negative income tax: evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba income maintenance experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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Alleinerziehende weiter unter Druck : Bedarfe, rechtliche Regelungen und Reformansätze
Lenze, Anne - 2021
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On the optimal reform of income support for single parents
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2021
We characterize the optimal reform of U.S. income support for low-income single parents. We develop a heterogeneous agents model with idiosyncratic risk and incomplete asset markets where single parents evolve through three life stages defined by their children's care needs. Using the U.S....
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Changes in the Welfare Caseload and the Health of Low-Educated Mothers
Kaestner, Robert; Tarlov, Elizabeth - 2021
Declines in the welfare caseload in the late 1990s brought significant change to the lives of many low-educated, single mothers. Many single mothers left welfare and entered the labor market and others re-arranged their lives in order to avoid going on public assistance. These changes may have...
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Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income Families
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2021
We study whether welfare reform adversely affected the health insurance coverage of low-educated single mothers and their children. Specifically, we investigate whether changes in the welfare caseload during the 1990s were associated with changes in Medicaid participation, private insurance...
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Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States : Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers
Eissa, Nada; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus … - 2021
A large literature evaluating the welfare effects of taxation has examined the role of the labor supply elasticity, and has shown that the estimated welfare effects are highly sensitive to its size. A common feature of this literature is its exclusive focus on hours worked and the associated...
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The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2021
be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special disability and grade repetition questions from the school enrollment supplement to the 1992 Current Population Survey to estimate the effect of maternal age and single...
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An Anthropology Study : Why Single Mothers Have to Face Differences?
S.D.Y, Jayarathne; W.T.D, Wijethunga - 2021
Family is a factory producing human personalities and it is a unit with the married couple and their children. In modern society, the family faces a large number of changes. In the current special setup, one of the major problems that a family encounters is disorganization. Through it, the...
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The Poverty of Widows : Future Prospects
Hurd, Michael D. - 2021
I estimate the fraction of widows that will be in poverty by projecting the economic status, as measured in 1979, of a cohort of the elderly. The projections are based on an economic model of consumption behavior. I define and estimate a consumption-based measure of poverty status that, I...
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The Austerity of Lone Motherhood : Discrimination Law and Benefit Reform
Campbell, Meghan - 2021
The austerity motivated reforms of the UK benefit system have had a devastating and disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups. Lone mothers are challenging these regulations as discriminatory. Their claims raise an under-theorized question: how should courts adjudicate claims for status...
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Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status
Reichman, Nancy E.; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - 2021
We use data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of poor child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth and also at how their relationships changed along a...
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Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Single Mothers
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
While there has been considerable research on the disincentive effects of cash welfare under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, there is little evidence on the benefits of the program for single mothers and their children. One potential benefit of this program is that it...
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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2021
We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families—the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...
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Transition from a Two-Parent to a Single-Parent Household and Child Development
Kim, Inkyung - 2021
■ As Korea is expected to see an increase in the share of single-parent families, this study analyzes the impact of a family transition from a two-parent to single-parent home on child development. - The level of development is measured based on health, self-regulated learning, emotional...
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Welfare versus Work Under a Negative Income Tax : Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - 2021
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional welfare with stronger work incentives and reduced poverty. However, existing labor supply estimates...
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Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Meyer, Bruce D.; Rosenbaum, Dan T. - 2021
During 1984-96, welfare and tax policy changed dramatically. The Earned Income Tax Credit was expanded, welfare benefits were cut, welfare time limits were added and cases were terminated, Medicaid for the working poor was expanded, training programs were redirected, and subsidized or free child...
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Single Parents
Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2021
Services for single parents constitute a category of child and family services. These services are carried out by public and non-governmental bodies for people who are single parents by the unfortunate events or by their own choice. Individuals come to single parenthood mainly through divorce,...
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2021
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...
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Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers? : to boost the employment rate of the low-skilled trapped in inactivity is it sufficient to supplement their earnings?
Van der Linden, Bruno - 2021
High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). "Making-work-pay" policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2021
This paper provides an analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1999 National Survey of...
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Knoef, Marike; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty Through In-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform increased the amount of benefits and introduced working requirements. Using a quasi-experimental model, Mogstad and Pronzato (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone...
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Optimal Taxation : The Design of Child Related Cash- and In - Kind - Benefits
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax - transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...
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A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
Blau, David M.; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2021
This paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the U.S. Childbearing and transitions among co-residential union states defined by single, cohabiting, and married are analyzed jointly. A novel contribution is to distinguish men by their...
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The Determinants of the Prevalence of Single Mothers : A Cross-Country Analysis
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2021
This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual-level data for 14 countries. I...
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Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy
Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2021
In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare between January 1994 and March...
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Cooperative Models in Action : Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2021
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...
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Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities : Evidence for Germany
Mahler, Philippe; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021
We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a negative correlation between disrupted family...
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