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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In this chapter I provide a brief history of the TANF program, including changes made as part of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. I then present a variety of program statistics, including trends in aggregate and state-level caseloads and spending, along with changes in the demographic composition...
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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714375
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Tekin, Erdal; Wright, Richard; Topalli, Volkan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the delivery of their welfare benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753944
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The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families
Blank, Rebecca M.; Matsudaira, Jordan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of changes in earnings disregards for welfare assistance received by single mothers following welfare reform in 1996. Some states adopted much higher earnings disregards (women could work full time and still receive welfare), while other states did not. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580518
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Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using longitudinal data for 1968-2009 for male household heads, we determine the prevalence of pre- retirement age disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of these quantities in the optimal social insurance...
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The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Meghir, Costas; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph De; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were …
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …-run annual earnings by $178 (5.1%). Because applicants initially denied benefits spend on average more than 15 additional months …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119820
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne Christina; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
. We find evidence of substantial "social support substitution": individuals on average offset a euro of lost DI benefits … earnings increase by 62 cents on average per euro of lost DI benefits. This is novel evidence of substantial remaining earnings …
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation … to be stronger in states with lower welfare benefits and higher earnings disregards, and in states with larger caseload … declines. The findings point to broad-based work incentives--and, by inference, employment--as a key determinant of female …
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