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comparing their efficacy. -- -- Welfare reform ; Tax credits …
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized. …
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …
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, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …. -- treatment effect heterogeneity ; welfare reform ; distributional effects …
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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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strong evidence of "social support shopping": 43 percent of those induced to leave DI due to the reform receive an … alternative form of social assistance two years after the implementation of the reform. As a result, for each Euro saved in DI …% to 69% if we also take into account the response of the partners' of those affected by the DI reform. The crowd …
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The federal government's welfare reform efforts have two defining characteristics: first, welfare reform requires … reform devolves administrative responsibility to the states, punishing states if they fail to meet federal employment targets …. Thus welfare reform shifts the burden of welfare-to-work requirements to the states, even as the states have decreasing …
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This paper examines whether AFDC/TANF asset tests affect the asset holdings of low-educated single mothers, exploiting variation in asset limits and exemptions across states and over time. There are important reasons to examine vehicle assets in this context. For example, vehicles make up a very...
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in Difference test is performed. Specifically, the change in single mothers’ happiness before and after welfare reform is … compared to the change in happiness of four comparison groups. Welfare reform appears to increase happiness (predominantly by …
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This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summarising the most …
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