[…] tax-benefit system in OECD countries notably reduces market inequality, in Brazil the government has not been able to significantly alleviate inequality and poverty. This paper investigates the impact of the government budget, particularly taxes and cash transfers, on income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing inequality and poverty. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood on the income and mental health of individuals living in social housing in the United Kingdom. We exploit a dataset that is representative and longitudinal to match people to their very local neighbourhoods. Using this, we examine the effect of living in a neighbourhood in which 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] changes in these over the period, during which the UK economic and policy environments changed considerably. It then analyses the extent to which differences in social class impact on the formation of women’s attitudes, and/or on their ability to attain their desired work-family outcomes. Finally, the longitudinal features of the BHPS are used to […]
In this report we analyse the distributional impact after accounting for imputed rents in the household disposable income measure, using the Family Expenditure Survey 2000/01 and the Family Resources Survey 2003/4 data. Rent imputation has been performed following an “opportunity cost approach” implemented with two alternative methodologies, based on regression and stratification. We find […]
[…] service that beneficiaries would otherwise need to spend cash resources on and in this respect is regarded as a non-cash government transfer. The study of the distributional impact of public education non-cash transfers requires micro-level survey data representative of the UK population, besides national accounts aggregates for current public education expenditure. We use two […]