The paper consists of a discussion on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare. This discussion is based on a … subjective Bayesian reasoning, where welfare perceptions are subjectively rational decisions of individuals, who are, as author … suggests, the ultimate decision-makers in respect of what welfare actually means for them. The objective of the paper is to …

growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …

discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …

temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …

their numbers fell quite unevenly on cities and regions. In the United States welfare is not exclusively a federal … responsibility. In principle, 50 states share welfare responsibilities with the federal government, but in reality five heavily … impacted states bore three-quarters of the nation’s immigration-related welfare burden. Additionally, legal and illegal …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

This paper analyzes the welfare implications of children’s enfranchisement within a political economy framework that … equilibrium under Markov strategies and compare welfare across various suffrage schemes and demographic groups. The franchise that … maximizes welfare across demographic groups depends on the fertility rate in the economy. Policies chosen when all demographic …