In the US, both taxes and old-age social security benefits depend on one's marital status and
tend to reduce the labour supply of the secondary earner. To what extent are these …

We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions,
America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on …

Social insurance is often linked to marriage. Existing evidence suggests small marital
responses to financial incentives and stems from settings where benefits are realized in the …

In this article, we study the labour supply effects and the redistributional consequences of
the US social security system. We focus particularly on auxiliary benefits, where eligibility is …

Retirement policies are individually designed, but the majority of older workers are
partnered, and are likely to coordinate their employment decisions with their spouse. The …

I use administrative data on the universe of public adoptions to investigate whether the
federal Adoption Tax Credit influences adoptions from foster care. Using a bunching …

In the US, both taxes and old age Social Security benefits depend on one's marital status
and tend to discourage the labor supply of the secondary earner. We study the effects of …

Abstract In the United States, both taxes and old age Social Security benefits explicitly
depend on one's marital status. We study the effects of eliminating these marriage-related …

While the main insurance sources for individuals with disability are understood, less is
known about how family support interacts with federal disability benefits. Using the Health …

We study whether ruling parties can systematically win a slender majority of seats in close
legislative elections, a phenomenon called “precise control.” We test for discontinuities in …