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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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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

Meara, Ellen; Frank, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...

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Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our model allows those with high time preference rates to find...

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How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

changes in disability. …

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Effects of Maternal Depression on Family Food Insecurity

Noonan, Kelly; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Theory suggests that adverse life events--such as unemployment or health shocks--can result in food insecurity, which has increased substantially in the U.S. over the past decade alongside the obesity epidemic. We test this proposition by estimating the effects of a specific and salient mental...

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

In this chapter I provide a brief history of the TANF program, including changes made as part of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. I then present a variety of program statistics, including trends in aggregate and state-level caseloads and spending, along with changes in the demographic composition...

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U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This chapter provides an overview of the patchwork of U.S. food and nutrition programs, with detailed discussions of SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program), WIC, and the school breakfast and lunch programs. Building on Currie’s (2003) review, we document the history and goals of the programs,...

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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

This paper models complexity in social programs as a byproduct of efforts to screen between deserving and undeserving applicants. While a more rigorous screening technology may have desirable effects on targeting efficiency, the associated complexity introduces transaction costs into the...

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Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support

Moffitt, Robert; Scholz, John Karl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Means-tested and social insurance programs in the U.S. have been transformed over the last 25 years, with expansions in Medicare and Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Supplemental Security Income, and with contractions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. We examine the effect...

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Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of …. Six of our findings stand out. First, disability rates are high. We divide the disabled along two dimensions based on the … and severe disability. Second, the economic consequences of disability are frequently profound. Ten years after disability …

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