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Distributional effects of public education transfers in Greece
, 2007
"... The usual practice in empirical distributional studies is to use distributions of disposable income. However, a household’s command over resources is determined not only by its spending power over commodities it can buy but also on resources available to the household members through the in-kind pro ..."
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-kind provisions of the welfare state (as well as private non-cash incomes). In most modern societies, one of the most important public transfers in-kind to the members of the population takes place through the education system. One of the main aims of such transfers is the mitigation of socio
Indirect effects of an aid program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Non-Eligibles
- Consumption?”, American Economic Review
, 2009
"... We exploit the unique experimental design of a social program to understand how cash transfers to eligible households indirectly affect the consumption of ineligible households living in the same villages. This indirect effect on consumption is positive, and it operates through insurance and credit ..."
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We exploit the unique experimental design of a social program to understand how cash transfers to eligible households indirectly affect the consumption of ineligible households living in the same villages. This indirect effect on consumption is positive, and it operates through insurance and credit
MEASURING INCOME FOR DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS
, 2013
"... This document describes the income measure the Tax Policy Center (TPC) uses to analyze the distribution of federal taxes. TPC’s income measure, which we call “expanded cash income” (ECI), is a broad measure of pre-tax income. We use it both to rank tax units in distribution tables and to calculate e ..."
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This document describes the income measure the Tax Policy Center (TPC) uses to analyze the distribution of federal taxes. TPC’s income measure, which we call “expanded cash income” (ECI), is a broad measure of pre-tax income. We use it both to rank tax units in distribution tables and to calculate
Cash Transfer Programs with Income Multipliers: PROCAMPO in Mexico
- PROCAMPO in Mexico,@ Paper presented at the CIAT workshop AAssessing the Impact of Agricultural Research on Poverty Alleviation,@ IICA
, 1999
"... Cash transfer programs induce multiplier effects when recipients put the money they receive to work to generate further incomes. When this is the case, the ultimate income effects are multiples of the amounts transferred. We analyze the PROCAMPO program in Mexico that was introduced to compensate fa ..."
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Cash transfer programs induce multiplier effects when recipients put the money they receive to work to generate further incomes. When this is the case, the ultimate income effects are multiples of the amounts transferred. We analyze the PROCAMPO program in Mexico that was introduced to compensate
Fixed-Income Portfolio Selection
, 2009
"... The equity portfolio selection problem is the subject of a substantial literature. Though equally important in practice, the optimization problem for a fixed-income portfolio, which may contain corporate and government bonds, industrial loans and credit derivatives such as credit swaps, is less well ..."
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formulates and solves the static selection problem for a fixed-income portfolio. It proposes to optimize the portfolio mark-to-market profit or loss at the investment horizon, which incorporates the premium and default cash flows of long and short cash and derivative positions, and the survival
1 Social Protection for Children and their Families: A Global Overview
"... This paper will describe the range and scale of social protection policies and programs affecting children and their families and provide illustrations from around the world. The focus will be on cash benefits (income transfers and tax benefits), non-cash family benefits and services, employment-r ..."
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This paper will describe the range and scale of social protection policies and programs affecting children and their families and provide illustrations from around the world. The focus will be on cash benefits (income transfers and tax benefits), non-cash family benefits and services, employment
Social Security: The Largest Source of Income for Both Women and Men in Retirement
, 2003
"... This Briefing Paper examines major sources of income for older Americans—earnings, Social Security, pensions and assets—by gender and marital status. It shows that during retirement, Social Security is the most common and the largest source of income for both women and men. Approximately 90 percent ..."
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is the primary source of detailed information on income in the United States, as it gathers annual information on more than 50 sources of income including earnings, Social Security payments, pension income, and other government cash and noncash benefits (e.g., food stamps, health insurance, etc.). We combine
Incentive Effects of Retirement Income Transfers
- In Closing the Coverage Gap: The Role of Social Pensions and Other Retirement Income Transfers
, 2009
"... Abstract The paper explores the incentive effects of retirement income transfers -essentially, non-contributory cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty among the elderly. A literature review reveals how little academic analysis of the impact of these transfers has been completed. We begin with a t ..."
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Abstract The paper explores the incentive effects of retirement income transfers -essentially, non-contributory cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty among the elderly. A literature review reveals how little academic analysis of the impact of these transfers has been completed. We begin with a
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is
"... the largest cash transfer program for low-income parents in the United States.1 The refundable tax credit supplements wages and offsets taxes paid by low-income workers. Research suggests that the EITC has not only been effective in moving fami-lies over the poverty line, but it has also encouraged ..."
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the largest cash transfer program for low-income parents in the United States.1 The refundable tax credit supplements wages and offsets taxes paid by low-income workers. Research suggests that the EITC has not only been effective in moving fami-lies over the poverty line, but it has also encouraged
The welfare cost of means-testing: pensioner participation in income support
- Department of Economics, University of Leicester
, 2002
"... to members of the project’s advisory group and seminar audiences at the Universities of Essex and Leicester, who gave valuable comments. Material from the Family Resources Survey, made available by the O�ce for National Statistics via the UK Data Archive, has been used with permission. All responsib ..."
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responsibility for the analysis and interpretation of the data presented here lies with the authors. 1 ABSTRACT: We estimate parametric and semi-parametric binary choice models of benefit take-up by British pensioners and develop methods, based on the compensating variation, of inferring the cash
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