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Current search: 'Research Paper' and '2016'

  1. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  2. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  3. Lone parents, time-limited in-work credits and the dynamics of work and welfare

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Cribb

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits

  4. The twin instrument

    Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Health

  5. The twin instrument

    Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Health

  6. Ethnic minority voters in 2015: a breakthrough for the Conservative party?

    Nicole Martin

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Ethnic Groups

  7. Local institutional structure and clientelistic access to employment: the case of MGNREGS in three states of India

    Anindya Bhattacharya, Anirban Kar, and Alita Nandi

    1. Politics
    2. Social Structure
    3. Rural Economics
    4. Labour Market
    5. Households
    6. Poverty

  8. Local institutional structure and clientelistic access to employment: the case of MGNREGS in three states of India

    Anindya Bhattacharya, Anirban Kar, and Alita Nandi

    1. Politics
    2. Social Structure
    3. Rural Economics
    4. Labour Market
    5. Households
    6. Poverty

  9. Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings: evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

    Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Market
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Policy

  10. On the quantity and quality of girls: new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

    S. Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra, and Hiu Tam

  11. Making work pay: a conceptual paper

    Manos Matsaganis and Francesco Figari

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  12. Delving into the demand side: changes in workplace specialization and job polarization

    Guido Matias Cortes and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Organizations And Firms

  13. Do parents tax their children? Teenage labour supply and financial support

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Household Economics

  14. Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Disability
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits

  15. Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Disability
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits

  16. The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on work incentives and poverty in Lithuania

    Jekaterina Navicke, Silvia Avram, and Lilas Demmou

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

  17. Estimating the distributional impact of the Greek crisis (2009-2014)

    Chrysa Leventi and Manos Matsaganis

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Economic Policy

  18. Property rights and gender bias: evidence from land reform in West Bengal

    Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, et al.

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Childbearing: Fertility
    3. Housing Market

  19. Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works (best) where?

    Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation

  20. Mitigating the gender gap in the willingness to compete: evidence from a randomized field experiment

    Sule Alan and Seda Ertac

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Labour Market
    6. Economics

  21. The distributive effects of work-family life policies in European welfare states

    Tine Hufkens, Gerlinde Verbist, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Caregiving

  22. Scenarios for reducing poverty in Belgium, Greece and the United Kingdom

    Tim Goedemé, Holly Sutherland, Paola De Agostini, et al.

    1. Poverty
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation

  23. Maternal depression, parenting behaviors and child development: evidence from a randomized control trial

    Baranov Victoria, Sonia Bhalotra, and Joanna Maselko

    1. Psychology
    2. Social Development
    3. Child Development
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Psychology

  24. The price of gold: dowry and death in India

    Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, and Selim Gulesci

    1. Economics
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Savings And Assets

  25. Path-breakers? Women’s electoral success and future political participation

    Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer

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