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Grandparental childcare, family allowances and retirement policies
The paper uses an OLG model to study the interaction between policies designed to ensure the sustainability of the pension system, i.e. child...
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CO2 Emission Allowances Risk Prediction with GAS and GARCH Models
We analyse the predictive and the forecasting ability of various Generalized Autoregressive Score (GAS) and GARCH frameworks for European Union...
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The Fiscal Treatment of Family Size: An Overview
There is general consensus, among the populace at large and actually also among the majority of social scientists, that large families should be...
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The future of family-friendly policies
Families are under increasing stress from the rising cost of raising children, especially single-parent households and those where both parents...
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Back to work or stay at home? Family policies and maternal employment in Finland
The employment effects of family policies depend on the mother’s labor market attachment and on the age of the child. We study the effects of child...
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The family and the state: a public choice perspective
The family is an institution within which exchange takes place. The state depends on the productivity of families for its current and future...
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Family Firms’ Aggressive Tax Planning: An Empirical Evaluation for Italy
This paper examines whether Italy’s family firms are more or less tax aggressive than their counterparts. To this end we exploit several data sources...
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Doing Contexts: Women in Family Narratives
The role of context, defined as “circumstances, conditions, situations or environments that are external to the respective phenomenon and enable or...
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The effect of child benefits on financial difficulties and spending habits: evidence from Poland’s Family 500 + program
In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 + program which provides cash...
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Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation
We study the design of a fair family policy in an economy where parenthood is regarded either as desirable or as undesirable, and where there is...
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Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families
Previous studies have examined how cash transfers affect children’s education and health regardless of sibship size. I examine the long-run...
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Gender Equality and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Labour Market, Family Relationships and Public Policy
During the recovery, investing in gender equality is essential: it will lead directly to higher GDP and indirectly to increase human capital and...
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Housing, Neighborhoods, and Inequality
This chapter provides an up-to-date review of the literature on housing, inequality, and neighborhoods while highlighting their many intersections....
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Reformation of the Social Support System for a Family, Mother/Fatherhood and Childhood as a Factor of Social and Economic Welfare of the Russian Society
Purpose: The Russian President Decree No.683 dated 31.12.2015 states the main directions of the Russian Federation national security strategy....
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Children, unhappiness and family finances
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research...
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The determinants of poverty exits and entries and the role of social benefits: the Italian case
This paper uses a novel micro econometric approach to analyze the impact of social benefits on the individual probabilities of poverty exit and entry...
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Gendered taxes: the interaction of tax policy with gender equality
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as...
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Child Benefit, Tax Allowances and Behavioural Responses: The Case of Japanese Reform, 2010–2011
The reform of Japan’s child benefit system in 2010 was followed by the abolition of the tax allowance for dependents in 2011. The present study uses...
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Only for Children?
The United Kingdom (UK) already has an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income—for children. This chapter tells the story of how Family Allowance...
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Subsidizing private childcare in a universal regime
All families in Finland have the freedom to choose between subsidized home care, universal public childcare, and private childcare. We study the...
