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  1. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  2. Shifting taxes away from labour enhances equity and fiscal efficiency

    Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari, et al.

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Microsimulation
    3. Taxation

  3. Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Marcelo Varela

    1. Insurance
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Household Economics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  4. The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning: comparative tax‒benefit indicators using EUROMOD HHoT

    Katrin Gasior and Pasquale Recchia

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation
    5. Social Policy

  5. Indexing out of poverty? Fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

    Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  6. The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe: the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies

    Daria Popova and Jekaterina Navicke

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Taxation
    8. Social Stratification

  7. 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

  8. Distributional impact of taxes and social transfers in Russia over the downturn

    Daria Popova, Mikhail Matytsin, and Emily Sinnot

    1. Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Taxation
    5. Economic Policy

  9. The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise

    Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

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

  10. Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  11. 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

  12. How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Shaw

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Taxation
    5. Life Course Analysis

  13. Learning from your neighbor: tax-benefit systems swaps in Latin America

    Olivier Bargain, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, and David Rodriguez

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

  14. Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage: the UK as a case-study

    Anthony B. Atkinson, Chrysa Leventi, Brian Nolan, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  15. Changes in spending and labor supply in response to a Social Security benefit cut: evidence from stated choice

    Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics

  16. Simulation of an application of the Hartz-IV reform in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, and Katrin Gasior

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation

  17. In or out? Poverty dynamics among older individuals in the UK

    Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics

  18. Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010-2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes

    Paola De Agostini, John Hills, and Holly Sutherland

    1. Pensions
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Taxation

  19. Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

    Silvia Avram

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Social Policy

  20. Evaluating the performance of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria

    Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Poverty
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation

  21. Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system: an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech Republic

    Silvia Avram and Eva Militaru

    1. Demography
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

  22. Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: a microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

    Daria Popova

    1. Young People
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation

  23. The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey: a new underlying database for EUROMOD

    Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, and Gerlinde Verbist

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  24. British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption

    Paul Fisher

    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Taxation
    4. Sociology Of Households

  25. Take-up of Free School Meals: price effects and peer effects

    Angus Holford

    1. Education
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Health

  26. Do household surveys give a coherent view of disability benefit targeting?: a multisurvey latent variable analysis for the older population in Great Britain

    Ruth Hancock, Marcello Morciano, Stephen Pudney, et al.

    1. Disability
    2. Households
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Surveys

  27. The labour supply effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its implications for parental altruism

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Social Policy

  28. Dependent interviewing and sub-optimal responding

    Eggs Johannes and Annette Jäckle

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Survey Methodology

  29. The distributional effects of taxes and transfers under alternative income concepts: the importance of three ‘I’s

    Francesco Figari and Alari Paulus

    1. Welfare Benefits
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  30. Motivated for employment? A qualitative study of benefit recipients

    Kathryn Skivington, Michaela Benzeval, and Lyndal Bond

    1. Disability
    2. Medicine
    3. Labour Market
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Health

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