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Making work pay? The labor market effects of capping child benefits in larger families

Child benefits are typically paid on a per-child basis, without restrictions on family size. In this paper we generate unique evidence on the effects of capping child benefits by family size by examining the introduction of the UK’s ‘two-child …

Public-private welfare activity in England, 1979 to 2019

This paper offers an empirical account of the changing landscape of private and public welfare activity in England over the forty years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. It forms a part of the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes in a Changing …

Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? Evidence from the UK’s two-child limit

We study the fertility effects of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent children born to low-income families in the UK were made ineligible for approximately …

The Conservative Governments' Record on Early Childhood from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate the record of successive Conservative administrations on early childhood during the period between 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020. The …