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The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021
The negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. However, the academic literature has raised two difficulties with it, one challenging its purported work incentives and the other suggesting the possible superiority of work...
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
Card, David - 2015
We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated program effect (for studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017948
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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021
This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper argues that, alongside the amply discussed,...
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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
Meara, Ellen - 2010
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...
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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979769
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Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Youth Crime
Corman, Hope - 2017
This study exploits differences in the implementation of welfare reform across states and over time to identify causal effects of maternal work incentives, and by inference employment, on youth arrests between 1990 and 2005, the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We consider both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965427
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Dave, Dhaval - 2016
Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997375
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more “poor-poor” incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …
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Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment : A Revealed Preference Approach
Kline, Patrick - 2015
We study the short-term impact of Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment on women's labor supply and welfare participation decisions. A non-parametric optimizing model is shown to restrict the set of counterfactual choices compatible with each woman's actual choice. These revealed...
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Sympathy for the Diligent and the Demand for Workfare
Drenik, Andres - 2017
We study the role of fairness concerns in the demand for redistribution through workfare. In the first part of the … diligent have a stronger preference for workfare programs. In the second part of the paper, we incorporate our empirical …
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