Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty through in-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions

Chiara Pronzato

No 4375, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform increased the amount of benefits and introduced working requirements. Using a quasi-experimental model, Mogstad and Pronzato (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would have minimized poverty among lone mothers.

Keywords: lone mothers; in-work benefits; poverty; discrete choice models; comparison of methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I38 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Fighting Lone Mothers’ Poverty Through In-Work Benefits: Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions (2015)
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