This paper reports the results of regressions on the probability of exiting AFDC based on an administrative data set of Minnesota families. The results find significant differences between recipients in urban, rural farming-dependent and other rural counties. These differences remain even after...

We examine the utilization of a state earned income credit by current and former welfare recipients using two measures: receipt among all current and former welfare recipients and among only those eligible for the credit. Both measures may be useful, depending upon which groups policymakers hope...

This paper examines utilization rates of Minnesota's earned income tax credit program by households on welfare from 1992 through 1999. We examine urban and rural differences in the rate of filing an income tax return and receiving the earned income tax credit. Tabulations show that urban areas...

A computable general equilibrium model is used to compare the economic impact of subsidies between professional and technical services, high-technology manufacturing and traded services. The results suggest that the largest increase in aggregate real income is a factor tax deduction on capital...

Examining the effects of four economic development subsidies- factor tax deductions on capital and labor and subsidies for research and development and labor training- we find that subsidies to the traded services producing sector can raise aggregate real income and lower income inequality in...

An integrated approach for estimating the stock of human capital in the United States isdeveloped which eliminates well known problems associated with both the cost and income basedmethods currently in use. Historical information on the cost of the educational investment madein base entrants...