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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance...

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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the...

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Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Chris; Sartbayeva, Anastasia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare...

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Time Limits: The Effects on Welfare Use and Other Consumption-Smoothing Mechanisms

Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1989-2006 to investigate the impact that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The...

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Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate it to data on the control group from a randomized social experiment. We then simulate a program...

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Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...

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