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Splurge or Save? When Monthly Assistance Benefits Arrive, Do Recipients Stretch Benefit Dollars or Spend Thoughtlessly?

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 admin benefits, family finances, SNAP

Researchers have documented that households who participate in assistance programs tend to spend and consume more right after benefit receipt

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What Keeps the Poor from “Smoothing” Financial Risk?

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 admin development, family finances, risk-sharing

From mutual aid cooperatives to burial societies, numerous informal and semiformal institutions exist to help households deal with financial risk.

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From Foster Care to Forever Families? How Does the Federal Adoption Tax Credit Affect Adoptions?

October 16, 2020 admin adoption, children, family finances, taxes

The Federal Adoption Tax Credit, introduced in 1997 to promote foster care adoption, became refundable for two tax years only,

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More Grooms than Brides—Does Marriage Market Competition Induce More Investment in Stocks?

October 2, 2020September 25, 2020 admin family finances, gender, investments, marriage

The value of the stock market in both developing and developed countries has experienced tremendous growth recently, which has a

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Partial Schooling Subsidy Puts Kids into the Classroom—And to Work

August 5, 2019August 7, 2019 admin children, development, education, family finances, labor, poverty

Evidence suggests that government subsidies typically increase school attendance and at the same time decrease paid work by children. The

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Study Finds We Might Not Select the Best Bundled Insurance Plans for Our Needs

April 2, 2019April 4, 2019 admin family finances, health insurance, healthcare

Choosing the right health insurance plan is difficult. People typically face large menus of plans that differ on various dimensions,

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Does an Inheritance Make You Work Less?

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 admin family finances, inheritance, labor

Many people are dying wealthier and leaving larger estates. At the same time, the old-age economic dependency ratio—the number of

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Ratio of earnings and employment for single mothers vs. single men
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Who Needs a Ring? The 1996 Welfare Reform’s “Independence Effect”

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018 admin family, family finances, poverty, welfare, work

In 1996 federal welfare reform replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, the oldest welfare program for

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Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

November 7, 2018June 2, 2020 admin children, family, family finances, family planning, poverty

For the past several decades, the U.S. government has invested heavily in anti-poverty programs, like the Earned Income Tax Credit

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Potential survivor benefits when husband claims at age 68, actual claiming choices, and potential survivor benefits that maximize household benefits
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Study Finds Wives Often Lose When Husbands Take Social Security Early

November 1, 2017 admin benefits, family finances, retirement, social security

Social Security provides a large portion of household income in old age. Most women receive at least some Social Security

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