Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80559 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7375
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and savings, we quantify the insurance value of alternative programs. We find important incentive effects on education choice and labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic labor supply. Returns to labor market experience are found to be substantial but only for full-time employment, and especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have substantial insurance value. Based on the model, marginal increases to tax credits are preferred to equally costly increases in income support and to tax cuts, except by those in the highest education group.
Subjects: 
labour supply
human capital
welfare reform
JEL: 
J22
J24
H31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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