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Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status
Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper calculates monthly time series for the overall safety net's statutory marginal labor income tax rate as a function of skill and marital status. Marginal tax rates increased significantly for all groups between 2007 and 2009, and dramatically so for unmarried household heads. The...
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The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
Vigdor, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In the presence of moving costs, individuals may remain in a region even when they expect to attain a higher standard of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on living standards could be positive or negative. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085266
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Tekin, Erdal; Wright, Richard; Topalli, Volkan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753944
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Uncertainty, Redistribution, and the Labor Market
Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Uncertainty and its composition can affect the demand for social insurance, and thereby the labor market. This paper shows that small to medium-sized increases in uncertainty or risk aversion are enough to recommend an expansion of the safety net that would be broadly similar to the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700274
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Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women
Shore-Sheppard, Lara; Ham, John C.; Li, Xianghong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Panel surveys generally suffer from "seam bias"--too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many reported between interviews. Seam bias is likely to affect duration models severely since both the start date and the end date of a spell may be misreported. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040650
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The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian A.; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Evidence for the net effects of housing programs on labor supply is central to a wide range of policy decisions about how to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829080
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Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
Blank, Rebecca M.; Card, David E.; Robins, Philip Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
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 somewhat more than alternative welfare programs. In particular … existing programs limit this effect by targeting long-term welfare recipients or by limiting benefits to full-time workers. At …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829985
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Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: What Have We Learned?
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
Welfare reform has once again made its way to the top of the domestic policy agenda. While part of the motivation … sources of variation in welfare policy: cross-state variation, over time variation, and demonstration projects at the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777739
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Angrist, Joshua; Chen, Stacey; Frandsen, Brigham R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...
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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric; Schady, Norbert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...
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