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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

the capital intensive export sectors. The overreactions cause unemployment, sluggish growth, a current account surplus and …

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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …

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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 of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...

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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family’s ability to purchase direct inputs into child...

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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

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...

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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

This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload...

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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program

Ravallion, Martin; Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

: involuntary unemployment and the expected welfare losses from work requirements. The paper generalizes past evaluation theory and …

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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 marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...

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Low-Income Housing Policy

Collinson, Robert; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The United States government devotes about $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so in tax expenditures on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). What exactly do we spend this money on, why, and what does it accomplish? We focus on these...

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Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance

Clemens, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Community rating regulations equalize the insurance premiums faced by the healthy and the unhealthy. Intended reductions in the unhealthy's premiums can be undone, however, if the healthy forgo coverage. The severity of this adverse selection problem hinges largely on how health care costs are...

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