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Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Single Mothers

Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

While there has been considerable research on the disincentive effects of cash welfare under the Aid to Families with … families) by 30 cents. This estimate implies that for each dollar of AFDC received by this population their consumption of …

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Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World : The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

Gruber, Jonathan - 2010

This is the introduction and summary to the fourth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...

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Crowd-Out Ten Years Later : Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?

Gruber, Jonathan - 2010

The continued interest in public insurance expansions as a means of covering the uninsured highlights the importance of estimates of quot;crowd-outquot;, or the extent to which such expansions reduce private insurance coverage. Ten years ago, Cutler and Gruber (1996) suggested that such...

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Early Social Security Claiming and Old-Age Poverty : Evidence from the Introduction of the Social Security Early Eligibility Age

Engelhardt, Gary V. - 2018

Social Security income for male-headed families in retirement by 1.5% at the mean, 3% at the median, and 4% at the 25th … 1885-1916 cohorts, the implied elasticity of poverty with respect to Social Security income for male-headed families is 1 …

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Insuring Consumption Against Illness

Gertler, Paul J.; Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

, families may not be able to smooth their consumption over periods of illness. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which … families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines …; families are able to smooth less than 30 percent of the income loss from these illnesses. These estimates suggest large welfare …

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Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances : Who is the "Marginal Child?"

Gruber, Jonathan; Levine, Phillip B.; Staiger, Douglas - 2021

We estimate the impact of changes in abortion access in the early 1970s on the average living standards of cohorts born in those years. In particular, we address the selection inherent in the abortion decision: is the marginal child who is not born when abortion access increases more or less...

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Demand and Reimbursement Effects of Healthcare Reform : Health Care Utilization and Infant Mortality in Thailand

Gruber, Jonathan - 2012

The Thai 30 Baht program was one of the largest health system reforms ever undertaken by a low-middle income country. In addition to lowering the cost of care for the previously uninsured in public facilities, it also entailed a fourfold increase in funding provided to hospitals to care for the...

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