Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119756 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 616
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This paper provides a short history of family allowances and documents that Keynes supported family allowances as early as the 1920s and continuing through the 1930s and early 1940s. Keynes saw this policy as a way to help households raise their children and also as a way to increase consumption without reducing business investment. The paper goes on to argue that a policy of family allowances is consistent with Keynesian economics. Finally, the paper uses the Luxembourg Income Study to estimate the impact of family allowances on child poverty in several developed nations and estimates the poverty-reducing impact of several possible family allowance programs for the US.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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