The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Table 1 Sample means (Standard deviations)

	Pre April 1988	Post March 1988	All
Prob Hours>0	0.406	0.324	0.375
Prob Hours>0 \| child 0-4	0.154	0.176	0.163
Prob Hours>0 \| no child 0-4	0.501	0.437	0.484
Hours \| Hours>0	26.4 (12.5)	25.3 (13.7)	26.0 (13.0)
Own age	35.5 (9.1)	33.1 (8.4)	34.6 (8.9)
# Children aged 0-4	0.37 (0.62)	0.53 (0.69)	0.43 (0.65)
# Children aged 5-10	0.57 (0.73)	0.62 (0.77)	0.59 (0.75)
# Children aged 11-16	0.74 (0.83)	0.52 (0.72)	0.66 (0.80)
Renter	0.57	0.68	0.61
Widow	0.11	0.05	0.09
Income Support participation	0.52	0.64	0.57
Family Credit participation	0.06	0.07	0.06
Housing Benefit participation	0.18	0.18	0.18
Child nutrition prog. participation	0.50	0.55	0.51
Income Support \| Income Support>0	38.22 (14.26)	57.06 (24.57)	46.04 (21.34)
Family Credit \| Family Credit>0	12.65 (7.83)	31.29 (17.39)	20.09 (15.51)
Housing Benefit \| Housing Benefit>0	28.88 (33.53)	31.34 (20.12)	30.23 (27.05)
Child nutrition \| CH>0	2.63 (2.03)	2.69 (1.31)	2.65 (1.83)
# Observations	2906	1621	4527

Source: FES data. Sample of single mother heads of household April 1978 to March 1992. Notes: Welfare figures are the levels of receipts conditional on receipt and are £ per week in 1992 prices. Child nutrition programme figures are the levels of receipt evaluated at market prices of milk and school meals as recorded in this FES data.