The dog that did not bark: The EITC for single mothers in the Netherlands
Leon Bettendorf (l.j.h.bettendorf@cpb.nl),
Kees Folmer and
Egbert Jongen
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Leon Bettendorf: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
No 229, CPB Discussion Paper from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Abstract:
We study the extension of an EITC for single mothers in the Netherlands to mothers with a youngest child of 12 to 15 years old. This reform has increased the net income for the treatment group by 5%. Using both DD and RD, we show that this reform has had a negligible effect on labour participation with tight confidence intervals around zero. Our results are at odds with a number of related studies. This is likely to be due to their use of single women without children as the control group, which in our case is an invalid control group.
JEL-codes: C21 H24 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01
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