This study examines the interaction between Food Stamp Program (FSP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF …) program participation, provides a model of joint decisions made by households on FSP, TANF, and labor force participation, and …

question and to estimate the model.My second chapter revisits the welfare cost of anticipated inflation in an incomplete … percent increase in inflation causes the welfare level go down by 2 percent if people are allowed to substitute time for money …

issue has also been lackluster; despite the large welfare gains that have been demonstrated to result from relatively small … forces of Australia and New Zealand from elsewhere within the Pacific region would raise welfare in both Australia and New … unskilled workers, the loss of scarce skilled workers could lead to significant declines in the welfare of those remaining …

of marginal costs as well as the mean of marginal costs. Chapter four analyzes welfare implications of present antitrust … removal of the least efficient firm of the market. The welfare gains can be traced back on these two effects. Therefore …, neither a minimum of market concentration nor a maximum of product diversity is necessarily welfare enhancing even in absence …

This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …