Family Credit and the Working Families Tax Credit

Dilnot, Andrew; McCrae, Julian

doi:10.1920/bn.ifs.1999.0003

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“…Since 1971, Britain has had some form of means-tested benefit for adults with children who worked more than a certain number of hours per week (Dilnot and McCrae 1999).…”

Section: Model and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Leigh¹

2007

National Tax Journal

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“…Since 1971, Britain has had some form of means-tested benefit for adults with children who worked more than a certain number of hours per week (Dilnot and McCrae 1999).…”

Section: Model and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Leigh¹

2007

National Tax Journal

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“…Since couples are more likely to consider forming a stable partnership after conceiving a child, Table 15 shows results estimated using the treatment and control groups defined by Brewer et al 14 The second column presents estimates with the treatment and control groups defined using the 1997 educational information. The third column shows estimates when the marital status is taken from year 1995.…”

Section: The Probability Of Birthmentioning

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Fertility Response to Financial Incentives: Evidence from the Working Families Tax Credit in the UK

Ohinata

2011

SSRN Journal

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The introduction of the 1999 Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) in the UK encouraged low income families with children to enter the labor market. The tax credit, however, may have had the unintended side effect of increasing the childbearing of these households. While many studies have looked at the importance of WFTC on the female labor supply, only few have estimated the impact it had on fertility decisions of British families. This paper employs the 1995 to 2003 British Household Panel Survey and identifies the policy impact of WFTC by observing the change in the probability of birth as well as the timing of birth using the difference in differences estimator. The main findings of this paper suggest that single women responded to the policy introduction by reducing the probability of birth and prolonging the birth intervals across all birth parity. For women with partners, on the other hand, the estimates indicate that financial incentives did not encourage them to enter motherhood but it rather induced women to have their second birth quicker.

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“…3 By 2003, WFTC had been replaced by the Working and Child Tax Credits (WTC and CTC) that extended fiscal support to additional low wage and income groups. Shifting responsibility from the DSS and the system of public welfare to the Inland Revenue and fiscal welfare has seen the number of individuals getting support increase from roughly 199,000 in 1985 to over 1.5 million by 2004 (Dilnot and McCrae, 1999;Adler, 2004). The key point here is that targeting via fiscal welfare can be used for progressive purposes and this may be a more attractive option than public welfare for both politicians and recipients.…”

Section: Fiscal Welfarementioning

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Remembering and Rethinking the Social Divisions of Welfare: 50 Years On

Mann¹

2009

J. Soc. Pol.

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This article revisits Titmuss's essay on the Social Divisions of Welfare (SDW) and reflects on its continuing relevance. Titmuss first presented the SDW in an Eleanor Rathbone Memorial lecture at Birmingham University in 1955, but it is best known from his Essays on the Welfare State published in 1958. Titmuss challenged the stereotype of 'welfare' as simply public welfare dependency and illustrated the different elements of the SDW. Some limitations of Titmuss's approach are identified, notably in relation to how he saw dependency arising, and revisions offered. The article provides a number of examples from the UK but also highlights some significant parallels with the SDW in the USA and Australia, 1 the so-called 'liberal welfare regimes' (Esping-Andersen, 1990). Finally, it is claimed that 50 years on we need to be reminded of the insights and analytical potential of Titmuss's essay.

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Family Credit and the Working Families Tax Credit

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Earned Income Tax Credits and Labor Supply: New Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Fertility Response to Financial Incentives: Evidence from the Working Families Tax Credit in the UK

Remembering and Rethinking the Social Divisions of Welfare: 50 Years On

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