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Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Michalopoulos, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Among the most important changes brought about by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is the imposition of time limits. In this paper, we analyze a simple model in which a potential welfare recipient chooses how to allocate her time-limited...

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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj; Gao, Qin; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We study the effect of welfare reform, broadly defined to include social policy changes in the 1990s, on the material well-being and expenditure patterns of poor single-mother families. Our research suggests that welfare reform did not affect total expenditures in households headed by...

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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...

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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...

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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Soares, Rodrigo R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...

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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci H.; Raschke, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...

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Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility

Blank, Rebecca M.; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

Over the last 10 years, a variety of analysts have blamed high unemployment and stagnant economic growth in Europe on inflexible labor markets and pointed to the US as a more flexible economy, due to its less regulated labor markets and less generous social protection programs. This paper...

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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health

Winter, Joachim; Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

depends on which time periods are used for estimation. Using the information of longer panels has the greatest effect on …

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"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel; Abrevaya, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow placing lower bounds on the effects of …

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Trust and Well-being

Helliwell, John F.; Wang, Shun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper presents new evidence linking trust and subjective well-being, based primarily on data from the Gallup World … surveys and the Gallup World Poll ask respondents to estimate the chances that a lost wallet would be returned to them if …

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