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...

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,...

The idea that saving is the force driving private investment and economic growth has become ever more entrenched in mainstream economic thought as well as in the minds of policymakers and the general public. Even though the empirical evidence that increased household saving will directly...