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Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions
Ham, John C.; Ozbeklik, Serkan; Shore-Sheppard, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and crowd-out. Specifically, we estimate: i) LATEs; ii) ATETs for the currently eligible; and iii) ATETs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147494
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805628
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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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The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on Maternal Smoking
Averett, Susan L.; Wang, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168621
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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Although many programs redistribute resources in the U.S., two program were central in providing a safety net for those facing hardship during the Great Recession: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which grew to 47.7 million people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884246
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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … supply effects of the EITC expansions found in previous literature. This validates employing a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367500
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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822377
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Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Neumark, David; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … wages appear to reduce earnings of minority men, and more so when the EITC is high. In contrast, our results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763838
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Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth
Dahl, Molly; DeLeire, Thomas; Schwabish, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has … examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives are "dead-end" jobs or jobs that have the … find no evidence that the EITC expansions between 1994 and 1996 induced single mothers to take "dead-end" jobs. If anything …
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