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China: Facing The Middle Income Trap, Singapore Management University
China: Facing The Middle Income Trap, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Neoliberalism and deregulation provide ready-made growth for China, but formidable hurdles block its route to developed status
Optimal Social Insurance With Informal Child Care, Christine Ho
Optimal Social Insurance With Informal Child Care, Christine Ho
Research Collection School Of Economics
The possibility of engaging in household child care may exacerbate the incentives of parents and grandparents to falsely claim disability benefits as households also get to save on formal child care costs. This paper considers a multi-generational family model with persistence in privately observed shocks and presents an efficient implementation case for subsidizing formal child care costs of the disabled. An implementation of the optimal scheme that consists of capped formal day care subsidies, non-linear income taxation and asset-testing is proposed. Simulations based on a parametrization that targets key features of the US labor and child care markets suggest that …