From The Telegraph, in part: In the latest report, published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal, researchers at the University of Essex analysed data from 3,235 couples taken from the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2002.
They found that the introduction of Working Families Tax Credit in 1999 made it easier for mothers to boost their income through work, because it allowed them to claim back 70 per cent of their child care costs.
They found that the introduction of Working Families Tax Credit in 1999 made it easier for mothers to boost their income through work, because it allowed them to claim back 70 per cent of their child care costs.
But the system - which was reformed again in 2003 - also made divorce an "attractive 'outside option'" to women whose husbands were unemployed or worked less than 16 hours a week on low pay. This is because they would be more likely to qualify for the benefits if they were single.
They claim mothers in poor households were more than 2 percentage points more likely to get divorced than childless women after the reforms, "representing an increase of almost 160 per cent with respect to the pre-reform period".
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