Contributions

  • Stabile, Mark. - Contributor
  • National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

10,250 words, Guess

Page Count

41 pages

Identifiers

Description

"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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Subjects

Topics

WelfareTaxationChildrenChild welfarePublic welfareChild tax creditsChild welfare -- Canada

Places

Series Statement

  • NBER working paper series -- no. 10968.
  • Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 10968.

Links

Other Editions

  • The integration of child tax credits and welfare: evidence from the national child benefit programNational Bureau of Economic Research2004-01-01

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