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Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem
Dehejia, Rajeev - 1999
I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAIN experiment (a randomized trial of a welfare-to-work alternative to AFDC), I show that GAIN first-order stochastically dominates AFDC when considering the choice between the treatment and control...
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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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Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2002
This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes over this period is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques utilized to analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then critically reviews the...
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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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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
Corman, Hope - 2013
We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...
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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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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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The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2003
The negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. However, the academic literature has raised two difficulties with it, one challenging its purported work incentives and the other suggesting the possible superiority of work...
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On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the economic foundations of some recently proposed criteria for evaluating the benefits of social programs. These criteria are appropriate for comparing a class of revenue-constant policies. They replace foundational principles of social opportunity costs with accounting...
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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole - 2019
We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...
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