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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
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An essay on welfare state dynamics
Lindbeck, Assar - 2003
The expansion of welfare-state arrangements is seen as the result of dynamic interaction between market behaviour and political behaviour, often with considerable time lags, sometimes generating either virtuous or vicious circles. Such interaction may also involve induced (endogenous) changes in...
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Do social policies harm employment and growth?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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Political participation and the welfare state
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the empirical literature on the link between education, income...
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants : welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni (contributor);  … - 2006
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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation : evidence from the U.S. welfare reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2018 - This version: March 19, 2018
We investigate whether the decision to experiment with novel policies is influenced by electoral incentives. Our empirical setting is the U.S. welfare reform in 1996, which marked the most dramatic shift in social policy since the New Deal. We find that electoral incentives matter: governors...
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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011
A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US : between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective
Laidler, David E. W. - 2002
,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent … performance are assessed. The most economically attractive among alternative monetary orders, the adoption by Canada of the US … politically attainable. Intermediate arrangements are unattractive and clearly inferior to Canada's current monetary order. …
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