The Integration of Child Tax Credits and Welfare: Evidence from the National Child Benefit Program / Kevin Milligan, Mark Stabile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milligan, Kevin.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Stabile, Mark.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10968.

NBER working paper series no. w10968

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child tax credits--Econometric models--Canada.

Child tax credits.

Federal aid to child welfare--Canada.

Federal aid to child welfare.

Public welfare--Econometric models--Canada.

Public welfare.

Child welfare--Taxation--Canada.

Child welfare.

Family policy--Canada.

Family policy.

National Child Benefit (Canada).

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

integration of child tax credits and welfare

The Integration of Child Tax Credits and Welfare

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.

Summary:

In 1998, the Canadian government introduced a new child tax credit. The innovation in the program was its integration with social assistance (welfare). Some provinces agreed to subtract the new federally-paid benefits from provincially-paid social assistance, partially lowering the welfare wall. Three provinces did not integrate benefits, providing a quasi-experimental framework for estimation. We find large changes in social assistance take-up and employment in provinces that provided the labour market incentives to do so. In our sample, the integration of benefits can account for around one third of the total decline in social assistance receipt between 1997 and 2000.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

246893410

Publisher Number:

201895 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)