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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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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 returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …

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Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Insurance Markets

Golosov, Mikhail; Tsyvinski, Aleh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We study optimal tax policy in a dynamic private information economy with endogenous private markets. We characterize efficient allocations and competitive equilibria. A standard assumption in the literature is that trades are observable by all agents. We show that in such an environment the...

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An Optimal Tax System

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This review essay builds on this trait and offers a more explicit foundation for the report's general approach, drawing on a distribution-neutral methodology that is...

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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...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime

Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family’s ability to purchase direct inputs into child...

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne Christina; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload...

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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

. A case study for India’s massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than … in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay. …

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