Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions

Dan Anderberg

No 2147, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a £100/week welfare benefit “partnership penalty” reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven percentage points. I also use the model to explore the potential effects of the recent Tax Credit reforms on partnership rates; I find that while the 1999 WFTC reform improved partnership incentives this effect was effectively undone by the 2003 WTC/CTC reform.

Keywords: welfare benefits; tax credits; family structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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