Browsing Institutes and Centres by Subject "D13"

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Do Dads matter? Or is it just their money that matters? Unpicking the effects of separation on educational outcomes

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)

The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
Normative evaluation of tax policies : from households to individuals

Bargain, Olivier (Springer Verlag, 2008-04)

We simulate a hypothetical family tax credit on a sample of French couples, using jointly a collective model of labor supply and a tax-benefit calculator. Work behaviors represent here a general concept of “effort,” and ...
A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier ; Donni, Olivier (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...
Willingness to pay : individual or household?

Delaney, Liam ; O'Toole, Francis (Springer Science and Business Media, 2006)

This paper considers how respondents model the open-ended willingness to pay question, what is your maximum willingness to pay? In the specific context of valuing Irish public service broadcasting, respondents were asked ...