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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006
Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460042
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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits : Evidence from Discontinuities
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2008
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects of the marginal Social Security benefits that accrue with additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464110
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The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families
Matsudaira, Jordan D. - 2008
receive welfare), while other states did not. We explore the effect of these changes on women's labor supply and income using … or income. We show this is because few women used these earnings disregards. This is surprising and we discuss why this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464609
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Incentive Effects of Social Assistance : A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lemieux, Thomas - 2004
We examine the incentive effects of transfer programs using a unique policy episode. Prior to 1989, social assistance recipients without children in Quebec who were under age 30 received benefits 60 percent lower than recipients older than 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468152
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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the ACS
Evans, William N. - 2017
Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455183
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The Lifecycle of the 47%
Fullerton, Don - 2016
with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456099
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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2014
In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but vary across subgroups. This is important because researchers interested in treatment effect heterogeneity typically restrict their attention to estimating mean impacts that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458522
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Accounting for Income Changes over the Great Recession (2007-2010) Relative to Previous Recessions : The Importance of Taxes and Transfers
Larrimore, Jeff - 2013
-tax post-transfer income during each of the past four recessions. What distinguishes the Great Recession is that drops in … employment rather than wage earnings drove income declines. In addition, taxes and transfers played a much greater role in … offsetting market income losses --a result largely missed in analyses that do not account for taxes and transfers. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458963
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
Borghans, Lex - 2012
In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460399
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The Crime Effect of Refugees
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210098