Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...