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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 … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit … had a negative and significant effect on the overall crime rate as well as burglary, assault, and larceny. According to …

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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

individual takes up social assistance increases with the expected benefit amount and duration, and falls with application cost …

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

effects change the cost-benefit conclusions implied by the partial equilibrium experimental evaluation substantially. …

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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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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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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...

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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 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...

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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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