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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
Corman, Hope - 2013
We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...
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Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs
Pavoni, Nicola - 2013
Some existing welfare programs ("work-first") require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others ("job search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper studies the optimal design of welfare programs when (i)...
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Workfare and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from India
Shah, Manisha - 2015
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare …
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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers
Meara, Ellen - 2010
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act imposed work requirements on welfare recipients. Using 1999-2001 data from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we compared the labor market and welfare experience of women with four employment barriers: poor mental health,...
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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
Card, David - 2015
We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated program effect (for studies...
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more “poor-poor” incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …
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Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components : A Re-Analysis of the California Gain Program
Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; Klerman, Jacob Alex - 2021
In this paper, we explore ways of combining experimental data and non-experimental methods to estimate the differential effects of components of training programs. We show how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are randomly assigned to any treatment versus a control...
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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way Out of Poverty?
Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021
The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...
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Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2021
This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes over this period is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques utilized to analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then critically reviews the...
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