There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

Federal tax law has long provided a tax benefit for charitable contributions of easements for conservation purposes. A … fundamental problem with this conservation easement tax expenditure is that the measure for the tax benefit – lost economic … the program. The Article argues that, in theory, the measure for the tax benefit should be changed to one that better …

individuals unobservable, and compare the resulting benefit schedules with those of programs found in the United States since … Welfare Reform (1996). We find that optimal programs closely resemble a Negative Income Tax with a Benefit Reduction rate that …