The integration of child tax credits and welfare
Subtitle: evidence from the national child benefit program
By: Kevin Milligan, Mark Stabile.
Contributors: Stabile, Mark.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10968; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10968.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Child tax credits -- Canada; Welfare -- Canada; Child welfare -- Canada
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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