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Do In-Work Tax Credits Serve as a Safety Net?

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2014

. Federal welfare reform has led to the "elimination of welfare as we know it" and several tax reforms have substantially … increased the role of "in-work"' assistance. In 2010, we spent more than 5 dollars on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for … every dollar spent on cash benefits through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), whereas in 1994 on the eve of …

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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2010

The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes to the central U.S. cash safety net program for families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare...

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011

Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...

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Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2006

A large literature has been concerned with the impacts of recent welfare reforms on income, earnings, transfers, and labor-force attachment. While one strand of this literature relies on observational studies conducted with large survey-sample data sets, a second makes use of data generated by...

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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment

Bitler, Marianne P. - 2014

In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically restrict their attention to estimating mean impacts that are...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021

Labor market outcomes of welfare reform have been the subject of extensive research by economists, but there has been relatively little work on living arrangements, which was an important focus of reformers. Our research fills that gap by using data from the March CPS to examine the impacts of...

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What Mean Impacts Miss : Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021

Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...

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Welfare Reform and Health

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021

We investigate the relationship between welfare reform and health insurance, health care utilization, and self-reported measures of health status for women aged 20-45, using nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We present estimates from both...

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