Search Results - subject:"PROGRAM PARTICIPATION"

Women's multiple-partner fertility in the United States: Prevalence, correlates and trends, 1985-2008

Evenhouse, Eirik; Reilly, Siobhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Program Participation spanning this period. Contrary to expectations, there was no upward trend in multipartnered fertility …

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On the Conditional Effects of IMF Program Participation on Output Growth

Binder, Michael; Bluhm, Marcel - CESifo - 2010

-dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program participation selection and the potential conditionality of the output … growth effects of program participation on a country's degree of program implementation and institutional factors such as …The empirical evidence currently available in the literature regarding the effects of a country's IMF program …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498998

Changing Participation in Food Assistance Programs Among Low-Income Children After Welfare Reform

Todd, Jessica E.; Newman, Constance; Ver Ploeg, Michele - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010

In 1996, the safety net for poor households with children fundamentally changed when Federal legislation replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). This study investigates participation in, and benefits received from, AFDC/TANF...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518943

How Costly is Welfare Stigma? Separating Psychological Costs from Time Costs

Manchester, Colleen Flaherty; Mumford, Kevin J. - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2010

This paper empirically decomposes the costs of welfare participation using a model of labor supply and participation in multiple welfare programs. Prior estimates of the cost of welfare participation have not differentiated psychological costs, or stigma, from the effort required to become...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531903

Re-evaluating the success of the EPA's 33/50 program: evidence from facility participation

Martina, Vidovic; Neha, Khanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using previously unavailable data, we examine facility participation in the 33/50 Program and its effect on aggregate and toxicity weighted emissions between1991 and 1995 for a sample of facilities whose parent firms committed to the Program. By focusing on individual facilities we avoid the...

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Multiple-Father Fertility and Welfare

Evenhouse, Eirik; Reilly, Siobhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

representative measures of women’s MPF, across multiple years, using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Surveys of Income and Program … Participation. Because welfare rules contain strong incentives for MPF, and because MPF is especially common among welfare …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694156

Does the Availability of Parental Health Insurance Affect the College Enrollment Decision of Young Americans?

Hall, Diane M. Harnak; Jung, Juergen; Rhoads, Thomas - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2010

The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, non-student) depends on the availability of health insurance from their parents. Our findings indicate that the availability of parental health insurance has strong...

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Paperless Food Assistance: The Impact of Electronic Benefits on Program Participation

Atasoy, Sibel; Mills, Bradford F.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van … - 2009

This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, it demonstrates that effects of the treatment on the treated at a given...

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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm's previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298811