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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries...
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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951410
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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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Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits
Kopczuk, Wojciech; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
associated complexity) along with a benefit level and an eligibility criterion. It is shown that optimal program parameters … undeserving (type II errors), policies usually involve eligibility criteria that make them eligible and rely on complexity to … either eligibility criteria or complexity. We present numerical simulations on comparative statics with respect to budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087468
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Nearly two years after the official end of the "Great Recession," the labor market remains historically weak. One candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to as many as 99 weeks. This paper investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325541
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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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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Tekin, Erdal; Wright, Richard; Topalli, Volkan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753944
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Illicit Drug Use of Adult Women
Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E.; Das, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time and comparing relevant population subgroups within an econometric difference-in-differences framework, we estimate the causal effects of welfare reform on adult women's illicit drug use from 1992 to 2002, the period during which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634719
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The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Ganong, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
6% higher than it would be without these increases in eligibility. The recession-era increase in benefit levels is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692221
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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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