Tax credits, income support and partnership decisions

Arbeitspapier

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a £100/week welfare benefit “partnership penalty” reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven percentage points. I also use the model to explore the potential effects of the recent Tax Credit reforms on partnership rates; I find that while the 1999 WFTC reform improved partnership incentives this effect was effectively undone by the 2003 WTC/CTC reform.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2147

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
• Subject: welfare benefits ; tax credits ; family structure ; Sozialer Wandel ; Steuerbegünstigung ; Familienleistungsausgleich ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Frauen ; Ehe ; Schätzung ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Anderberg, Dan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26191
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET