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Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work

Cawley, John - 2004

This paper utilizes a rich longitudinal data set -- the Women's Employment Study (WES) to investigate whether obesity, which is common among women of low socioeconomic status, is a barrier to employment and earnings for current and former welfare recipients. We find evidence that, among current...

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy - 2004

This paper makes three primary contributions. First, we demonstrate the usefulness of general equilibrium models as tools with which to draw policy implications for policies implemented in practice only as small-scale social experiments. Second, we illustrate the usefulness of social experiments...

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E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Imbert, Clément - 2016

transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2016

Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with...

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Workfare and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from India

Shah, Manisha - 2015

We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare …

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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more "poor-poor" incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …

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Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment : A Revealed Preference Approach

Kline, Patrick - 2015

We study the short-term impact of Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment on women's labor supply and welfare participation decisions. A non-parametric optimizing model is shown to restrict the set of counterfactual choices compatible with each woman's actual choice. These revealed...

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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs

Pavoni, Nicola - 2013

Some existing welfare programs ("work-first") require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others ("job search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs when (i)...

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity

Neumark, David - 2009

I review evidence on alternative labor market policies that could potentially improve economic self-sufficiency via mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, or increasing productivity. The evidence indicates that the minimum wage is an ineffective policy to promote economic...

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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

Meara, Ellen - 2006

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...

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