Search Results - subject:"PROGRAM PARTICIPATION"

There's no such thing as a free lunch : evidence of altruism and agency from household expenditure responses to child nutrition programs

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 3, pp. 371-392

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A Guide to Disability Statistics from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

Wittenburg, David; Nelson, Sandi - Mathematica Policy Research - 2005

insight into the health, employment, income, and program participation outcomes associated with different definitions of …

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Economic Well-Being Based on Income, Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimal Needs

Garner, Thesia I.; Short, Kathleen - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2005

. Thresholds are estimated using a regression framework. Regression coefficients are based on U.S. Survey of Income and Program … Participation (SIPP) data and then applied to U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data. Three different resource measures are …, Survey of Income and Program Participation We extend our appreciation to Ismael Ahamdanech Zarco, the discussant of our …

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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 37-52

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the US and...

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"WHO PARTICIPATES IN R&D SUBSIDY PROGRAMS?. The case of Spanish Manufacturing Firms"

Blanes, J. Vicente; Busom, Isabel - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2004

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of R&D subsidies to firms has produced mixed results so far. One possible explanation is that firms and project selection rules may be quite heterogeneous both across agencies and across industries, leading to different outcomes in terms of the induced...

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Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2002 (Appendices)

Cunnyngham, Karen - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

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Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2002

Cunnyngham, Karen - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

Notes that the rate of participation for all eligible individuals fell from 56 percent in 1999 to 53 percent in 2001 and then rose in 2002 by less than one percentage point to 54 percent. For many subgroups, participation followed the overall trend, falling from 1999 to 2001 and then rising in...

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James Joseph; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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The Welfare Cost of Means-Testing: Pensioner Participation in Income Support

Pudney, Stephen; Hernandez, Monica; Hancock, Ruth - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

We estimate parametric and semi-parametric binary choice models of benefit take-up by British pensioners and use a revealed preference argument to infer the cash-equivalent value of disutility arising from stigma or complexity of the claims process. These implicit costs turn out to be relatively...

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Regional Welfare Programs and Labor Force Participation

Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Kilkenny, Maureen - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2003

participation or program payoffs. Furthermore, unlike under the previous welfare program, participation in Temporary Assistance for … welfare program parameters do differ regionally. But we find that labor supply does not depend on welfare program …

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