This paper reports on a randomized evaluation of an earnings subsidy offered to long-term welfare recipients in Canada …) the payment depends on individual earnings rather than family income. Our evaluation is based on a classical randomized … suggest that the financial incentives of the Self-Sufficiency Program increase labor market attachment and reduce welfare …

conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare …This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being … recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work …

conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare …This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being … recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work …

conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare …This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being … recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work …

econometric model is 5 percentage points higher than the estimate from the raw data. -- social experiment ; earnings subsidies … ; in-work benefit ; Canada …

participation ; unobserved heterogeneity ; natural experiment ; regression discontinuity ; microsimulation …