The Labor Supply Effect of In-Kind Transfers

Paul Bingley and Ian Walker ()
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Paul Bingley: Danish National Centre for Social Research, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, DK-1052 Copenhagen, Denmark

No 200820, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: We estimate a model of labor supply and participation in multiple programs for UK lone mothers which exploits a reform of in-work transfers. Cash entitlements increased but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programs was lost. We find that in-work cash and inwork in-kind transfers both have large positive labor supply effects. There is, however, a utility loss from program participation which is estimated to be larger for cash than for child nutrition. This implies that the partial cash out of the in-kind benefits reduced labor supply.

Keywords: labor supply; program participation; in-kind transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C35 D12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2008-09-12
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