Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193256 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11962
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity exports. Discontinuity in benefits eligibility at age 16 is exploited to predict the probability of receipt. Child benefits are found not to be spent differently from earned incomes or to influence child health differentially. Benefits do not observably crowd out private transfers to households containing children. Earned incomes and child health appear to be little related.
Subjects: 
labour supply
Russia
child wellbeing
commodities prices
child benefits
program evaluation
JEL: 
H3
I12
O12
O5
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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