Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much
lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to …

In the Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare
recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search effort that are imposed by the …

In 2002, the Mexican government began an effort to improve health access to the 50 million
uninsured in Mexico, a program known as Seguro Popular (SP). The SP offered virtually free …

We present a multiple spells-competing risks model of stopout, dropout, reenrollment, and
graduation behavior. We find that students who experience an initial stopout are more likely …

Abstract Andreas Hornstein (Richmond Fed economist and vice president), Per Krusell
(economics professor, University of Rochester, and Richmond Fed visiting scholar), and …

We study the short-, medium-, and long-run employment effects of a substantial change in
Germany's parental leave benefit program. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer …

The book explores interlinkages between women's employment and fertility at both a macro-
and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland. Similarly as many other …

The impact of increased academic intensity on transfer rates from community colleges to 4-
year institutions has been estimated only from observational data, with the possibility of …

Abstract Means-tested Social Assistance (SA) benefits play an important role as social
protection floors supporting households in financial difficulties. This paper presents …

Many OECD countries have in recent decades experienced periods of relatively rapid
growth in nonemployment benefit expenditures and recipiency rates which have not …