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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219172
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Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout : A Randomized Field Experiment
Heller, Sara - 2013
Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082429
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Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?
Kaestner, Robert; O'Neill, June - 2021
We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225938
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W.; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224392
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Parenting
Reichman, Nancy; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2021
cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked with information on their 10- to 14-year-old children from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238954
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117395
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Why Do so Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About it?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
This paper shows that participation in crime and involvement with the criminal justice system has reached extraordinary levels among young men. With approximately 2 percent as many men incarcerated as in the labor force, the crime rate should have plummeted. It didn't. Evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226562
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Criminal Deterrence : Revisiting the Issue with a Birth Cohort
Tauchen, Helen; Witte, Ann Dryden; Griesinger, Harriet - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the general deterrent effect of criminal justice resources on criminal behavior. Our panel data, which combine individual-level information on arrests and personal characteristics with aggregate measures of criminal justice resources, allow us to obtain deterrence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213078
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No Strings Attached : The Behavioral Effects of U.S. Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2018
The universal basic income has become a widely discussed measure in policy circles around the world. In this review, we cover the evidence relevant to its potential impact in the US, and in developed countries more generally. Many studies find no statistically significant effect of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927054
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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825493