This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and determine...

Der Welfare-to-Work-Ansatz der USA besteht im Wesentlichen aus zwei Elementen. Er beinhaltet zum einen die Gewährung eines »Earned Income Tax Credit« (EITC) für Beschäftigte im Niedriglohnbereich, zum anderen verfolgen die USA seit 1996 einen Workfare-Ansatz für Sozialhilfeempfänger. In...

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently,...