Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Project Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantiall...

Documentation IZAΨMOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of ...

We study how migration decisions of Mexican households respond to unemployment shocks in the U.S. We emphasize the role played by households (as opposed to individuals) as the decision-making units at origin. We show that Mexican families with members working abroad (exposed families) respond to negative economic shocks in the U.S. in a heterogeneous fashion. Poor families react by sending addi...

A model of how personality traits affect household time and resource allocation decisions and wages is developed and estimated. In the model, households choose between two behavioral modes: cooperative or noncooperative. Spouses receive wage offers and allocate time to supplying labor market hours and to producing a public good. Personality traits, measured by the so-called Big Five traits, can...

Delayed First Birth and New Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers’ labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and stillbirths. Focusing on mothers’ behavior around fir...

This paper examines the economic status and labour supply of older workers in Chile. It examines the extent to which the labour market is an important source of economic risk diversification for older workers and their households, and the influence of alternative sources: the family, social security, and accumulated assets. The main findings are firstly that there are important differences by a...

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that pub...

How Sensitive Are Retirement Decisions to Financial Incentives: A Stated Preference Analysis We study effects of financial incentives on the retirement age using stated preference data. Dutch survey respondents were given hypothetical retirement scenarios describing age(s) of (partial and full) retirement and replacement rate(s). A structural model is estimated in which utility is the discounte...

A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being* Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on timeuse data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are uncorrelated with the objective quality-of-lif...

Mircrosimulation (MS) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis. Their combination allows the utilisation of the advantages of both types. The aim of this paper is to describe the state-of-the-art in simulation analysis and to illustrate the benefits and problems of linking micro and macro models by analysing flat tax reform proposals for Germ...