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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being : A Review
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2007
Transfer payments to poor families are increasingly conditioned on work, either via wage subsidies available only to workers or via work requirements in more traditional welfare programs. Although the effects of such programs on employment are fairly well understood, relatively little is known...
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity and measurement error in wages. Using the model to...
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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply
Eissa, Nada - 2012
Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
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Nudges and Learning : Evidence from Informational Interventions for Low-Income Taxpayers
Manoli, Day - 2014
Can one-time informational interventions cause permanent changes in benefit take-up? In the context the Earned Income Tax Credit, we find evidence that reminding individuals of their eligibility has meaningful effects. Reminder notices have the largest effect among taxpayers without kids,...
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Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context
Van Reenen, John - 2021
The British New Deal for Young People began in January 1998. After 6 months of unemployment, 18-24 year olds are mandated to enter a `Gateway' period where they are given extensive job search assistance. If they are unable to obtain an unsubsidised job, then they can enter one of four New Deal...
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore - 2022
Hoynes, Miller and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS’s difference-in-differences estimates are unidentified in some comparisons, while failed...
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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans
Helliwell, John F. - 2011
Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...
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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012
relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012
Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...
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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality
Goff, Leonard - 2016
The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …
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