Arbeitspapier
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered rollout. By changing parents' consumption patterns, the policy aims to improve child outcomes. We find no evidence of this. Instead, our estimates suggest it reduced average birthweight by 95 grams and increased the probability of low birthweight by 3 percentage points. We explore the mechanisms that may explain this finding. Our study demonstrates how policies that are not carefully implemented and tested can unintentionally escalate existing inequalities.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13543
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Health and Inequality
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- Thema
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welfare reform
Aboriginal children
birth outcomes
income management
unintended consequences
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Doyle, Mary-Alice
Schurer, Stefanie
Silburn, Sven
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Doyle, Mary-Alice
- Schurer, Stefanie
- Silburn, Sven
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020
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