Means‐Testing the Child Benefit

Tom Kornstad and Thor Thoresen

Review of Income and Wealth, 2004, vol. 50, issue 1, 29-49

Abstract: Improving the distributional impact of transfers may be costly if it reduces labor supply. In this paper we show how effects of changes in the design of the child benefit program can be examined by employing information from behavioral and non‐behavioral simulations on micro data. The direct distributional effects are assessed by tax‐benefit model calculations, while female labor supply responses to alternative child benefit schemes are simulated under the assumption that choices are discrete. Distributional effects after labor supply responses are also shown. The study confirms that greater targeting of the child benefit is traded against reductions in female labor supply.

Date: 2004
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