Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: A microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

Popova, Daria

doi:10.1177/0958928716645074

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“…According to the research (Szarfenberg, 2018) the support contributes to the decrease in poverty in Poland, especially in large families (Brzeziński, Najsztub, 2018). A similar scheme can be observed in other countries (Popova, 2016). It can be found in the literature that money transfers are significant for the families for health, educational and employability reasons as well as higher salaries when the children grow up (Aizer et al 2016;Carneiro et al 2015).…”

Section: Family 500+ Programme Versus Polish Pro-family Policysupporting

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The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

Wilk¹

2020

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This article offers a critical reflection on the Programme “Family 500+” introduced by the Polish government and aimed at improving the financial situation of Polish families in order to increase the fertility rate. Families have been supported with the benefit of 500 PLN given for each child under 18. The article presents the results of the research carried out in 2019 on the representatives of the households (N= 3347). The interviewees most frequently pointed to the increase of the quality of living conditions and the increase in the consumption of goods and services. Approximately 80% of the interviewees have noticed the fact that the benefit boosted potential development of children by enabling them to participate in the extracurricular activities and visit leisure centers. 64,7% of the interviewees believe that the Programme let them have savings and 17,8% of respondents claim that the benefit will not contribute to their savings but will be consumed on a day-to-day basis. Despite the initial assumptions of the Programme , the policy of pronatalism was not achieved as the fertility rate did not reach the assumed level. It must be stated that even though the legislative activities constitute a milestone in the Polish pro-family policy these solutions have many disadvantages. The Programme should not be the main tool of the Polish demographic policy but just supplementary. Keywords: Family 500+ Programme; family policy; demographic policy; State Aid for Child Support Act; household finance; family benefits

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Section: Family 500+ Programme Versus Polish Pro-family Policysupporting

confidence: 69%

The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

Wilk¹

2020

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“…Research has found that a combination of universal and targeted (means-tested) cash benefits is most effective in reducing child poverty, with an important prerequisite – a sufficient budget (Levy et al, 2007; Popova, 2016). However, countries’ overall tax-benefit systems and population characteristics should not be neglected (Avram and Militaru, 2016).…”

Section: Public Support For Children: Goals and Policies In Practicementioning

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Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

Pezer

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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Public policies supporting families with children differ among countries but with the same goal of improving the well-being of children. Using a microsimulation model, this article assesses the cash support which families receive for their children in Croatia, Greece, Germany, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The impact of policies across the income distribution on different family sizes, child-rearing cost compensation and child poverty is estimated. A method for the calculation of child-contingent payments for each child by order of birth in the family is proposed as a complementary indicator of policy design. The results confirm that a combination of universal and targeted support (either from family or social assistance benefits) is the most effective in poverty reduction and cost compensation. While high support for larger families greatly reduces poverty, generous universal or even lower support for large families has proved to be at least equally effective.

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“…The previous studies of the redistribution in Russia focused on the impact assessment of separate policy instruments, such as child and maternity benefits (Denisova et al, 2000;Ovcharova and Popova, 2005;Ovcharova et al, 2007;Notten and Gassmann, 2008;Popova, 2016;Popova, 2013), in-kind benefits and subsidies (Volchkova et al, 2006), direct taxes (Duncan, 2014) or indirect taxes (Decoster, 2003).…”

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Distributional impact of taxes and social transfers in Russia over the downturn

Popova

Matytsin

Sinnot

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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Low oil prices and the recession in Russia which started in 2014 are increasing pressures for fiscal consolidation, after more than a decade of prosperity. This paper assesses the distributional impact of the main tax and social spending programs in Russia in 2014 by applying a state-of-the-art incidence analysis. Overall, the Russian welfare state achieves a moderate reduction in inequality through tax-benefit policies by international standards. Most redistribution occurs through pensions. Major limits on the redistributive effect of tax-benefit policy include the large share of tax revenues that come from (regressive) indirect taxes, the neutral impact of personal income taxes and the low share of spending that goes on social assistance targeted to low-income groups. Tax-benefit policy also has an important impact on the age distribution of income, as households of working-age people (with and without children) subsidize pensioner households.

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Distributional impacts of cash allowances for children: A microsimulation analysis for Russia and Europe

Cited by 15 publications

References 57 publications

The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

The Role of Family Policy in Solving Demographic Problems: Study of the Polish Program Family 500+

Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries

Distributional impact of taxes and social transfers in Russia over the downturn

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