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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Chetty, Raj; Katz, Lawrence F.; Hendren, Nathaniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long-term outcomes using administrative data from tax...

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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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

Ravallion, Martin; Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress: involuntary unemployment and the expected welfare losses from work requirements. The paper generalizes past evaluation theory and methods to incorporate both features, and...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Are the World’s Poorest Being Left Behind?

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of living of the poorest—raising the consumption floor. To address this deficiency, the paper defines and measures the expected value of the floor, allowing for transient effects...

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Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

The federal income tax and major welfare programs do not take into account significant cost-of-living variations among regions. This article considers what adjustments might be appropriate in light of the distributive purposes of tax and welfare systems and concerns about the efficiency of the...

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The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

Autor, David; Duggan, Mark G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

screening stringency and, due to the interaction between growing wage inequality and a progressive benefits formula, a rising …

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Government Transfers and Political Support

Miguel, Edward Andrew; Manacorda, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14...

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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Bertrand, Marianne; Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Mullainathan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to distinguish the effect of...

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