Essays in population and family economics

(cont.) observed in several Western countries. Finally, the third chapter evaluates the labor market effects of public subsidies to families with children. Using variation in the level of benefits provided by a policy reform in the UK that affected differentially what would otherwise be comparable groups of families, I estimate the effect of family allowances (also known as child benefits) on female labor force participation. The results show evidence of negative, yet insignificant and quantitatively negligible, effects of family allowances on female labor force participation.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2004

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• León, Alexis, 1977-

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• Joshua D. Angrist and K. Daron Acemoglu.

• Economics.

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