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Goolsbee, Austan (ed.); Jones, Benjamin F. (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of … Business Innovation Research program to the National Science Foundation. This book surveys key dimensions of innovation policy … investment and the case for public support of innovative activity. Part II examines human capital policy and mechanisms to expand …

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Economic transfers in the United States

Moon, Marilyn (ed.) - 1984

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Economics of means-tested transfer programs in the United States

Moffitt, Robert A. (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2016

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Time Limits and Welfare Use

Grogger, Jeff - 2000

policy. However, several recent studies suggest that they have had no effect on welfare use. In this paper I attempt to …

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What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

Schoeni, Robert F. - 2000

alternative approaches. We find strong evidence that these policy changes reduced public assistance participation and increased …

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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...

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Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

Levine, Phillip B. - 2000

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits and its impact on several developmental outcomes. Using data from the matched mother-child file from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's...

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Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Rangel, Antonio - 2000

This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the relationship between them. A FIG is a transfer from...

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Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits

Grogger, Jeff - 1999

Among the most important changes brought about by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is the imposition of time limits. In this paper, we analyze a simple model in which a potential welfare recipient chooses how to allocate her time-limited...

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Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1999

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost...

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