We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using …- Singer type unobserved heterogeneity estimator. Graduation would reduce welfare receipt of dropoutsby Ý to 3/4. Effects are …

previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not means-tested. Such a design is cheaper, and perhaps better targeted, but … piloted in around one third of the country. It finds that the policy did increase flows off welfare and into work, and that … of the impact arose by speeding up welfare off-flows: the job retention of programme recipients was good, but this cannot …

previous receipt of welfare, and, perhaps, not means-tested. Such a design is cheaper, and perhaps better targeted, but … piloted in around one third of the country. It finds that the policy did increase flows off welfare and into work, and that … of the impact arose by speeding up welfare off-flows: the job retention of programme recipients was good, but this cannot …

We evaluate the large scale pilot of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines homes …

We investigate the impact on social welfare of the UK policy introduced in 1980 by which public housing tenants … welfare effects of various adjustments to the policy, in particular (i) tighter restrictions on resale; (ii) reduced discounts …

The goals of income transfer systems in the US and the UK for low-income families are to reduce poverty and welfare … combination of in-work benefits and welfare benefits produces a theoretical budget constraint with good financial incentives for … work incentives difficult. First, little is known about take-up rates of in-work and other welfare benefit rates in the US …