Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?

This paper examines the extent of welfare induced migration using 1980 and 1990 Census data. I begin by discussing a number of methodological issues which suggest biases in past methods used to study welfare migration. Using several different methods, I then provide new estimates which avoid many of the problems of past work. The estimates imply that there is welfare induced migration, but it is modest in magnitude.

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Year of publication:	1998-12-01
Authors:	Meyer, Bruce D.
Institutions:	Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago

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Series:	JCPR Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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