The objective of this paper is to analyse 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 study the age incidence of government taxes […]
The objective of this paper is to analyse 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 study the age incidence of government taxes […]
[…] lowest-low fertility, i.e. below 1.3 children per woman. In this paper we focus on the period during which such fertility levels arose in order to assess the impact of income on fertility decisions. So far, analyses have suffered from the lack of appropriate data; we create a new data set making use of two […]
[…] lowest-low fertility, i.e. below 1.3 children per woman. In this paper we focus on the period during which such fertility levels arose in order to assess the impact of income on fertility decisions. So far, analyses have suffered from the lack of appropriate data; we create a new data set making use of two […]
[…] parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric approach is also used to analyze the impact of difficulties with the new currency on well-being. The results indicate a severe loss in well-being associated with the introduction of the new currency, with the […]
[…] on these questions in the case of young people in Germany. In particular, it examines the extent to which maternal and paternal unemployment during childhood have an impact on political far right-wing views, affinities to right-wing extremist parties, and the chances of joining skinhead or neo-Nazi groups. Also examined are young Germans’ prejudices and […]
[…] a new partner. Multiple annual observations on most re-partnered fathers in our sample allow us to use ‘within-father’ variation over time in partners’ incomes to identify the impact of individual partners’ incomes on child support payments. In other words, we can allow for unobserved persistent influences on child support payments, including the father’s ex-partner’s […]
[…] and facilitate the role of interviewers. However, evidence for each of these claims is inconclusive if not non-existent. This paper has four aims. First, we evaluate the impact of DI on interviewers and their survey role, such as the ease of administering DI questions, how DI affects interview flow, awkwardness of question wording, DI […]
[…] years. Many social scientists are arguing that the time is right for policymakers to extend their traditional focus on material well-being and economic development to include the impact policies have on how people think and feel about their lives. This has led to numerous studies investigating the impact of economic and social factors on […]