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Can Variation in Subgroups' Average Treatment Effects Explain Treatment Effect Heterogeneity? Evidence from a Social Experiment
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2014
In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but … job of capturing the treatment effect heterogeneity for Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment using quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053832
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Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the U.S
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021
The system of means-tested transfers in the U.S. has evolved in important ways over the last decade, with significant expansions of Medicaid , the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Security Income program, and with significant contraction in Aid to Families with Dependent Children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228966
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Insurers' Negotiating Leverage and the External Effects of Medicare Part D
Lakdawalla, Darius N. - 2010
Public financing of private health insurance may generate external effects beyond the subsidized population, by influencing the size and bargaining power of health insurers. We test for this external effect in the context of Medicare Part D. We analyze how Part D-related insurer size increases...
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The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures : Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
risks of any reform come from the political process. This paper examines the political risks, related to corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106080
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Is the EITC Equivalent to an Nit? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
Rothstein, Jesse - 2010
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down, shifting the intended transfer toward employers. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC under a range of plausible supply and demand elasticities. In all of...
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Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard : Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design
Pauly, Mark V. - 2010
The conventional theory of optimal coinsurance rates in health insurance in the presence of moral hazard indicates that, in situations of equal risk characteristics, coinsurance should vary if the price-responsiveness or price-elasticity of demand for different medical services varies, and...
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The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus : Evidence from the 2009 'Cash for Clunkers' Program
Mian, Atif R. - 2010
A key rationale for fiscal stimulus is to boost consumption when aggregate demand is perceived to be inefficiently low. We examine the ability of the government to increase consumption by evaluating the impact of the 2009 "Cash for Clunkers" program on short and medium run auto purchases. Our...
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The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan's Banks' Survival in the 1930s
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2012
This paper examines the effects of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's (RFC) loan and preferred stock programs on bank failure rates in Michigan during the period 1932-1934, which includes the important Michigan banking crisis of early 1933 and its aftermath. Using a new database on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100128
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra - 2012
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106307
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Estimating the Impact of Means-Tested Subsidies Under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2013
inference problem novel. We show that even if individual ITN use unambiguously increases with increasing incidence of subsidy in …, depending on the resulting aggregate incidence of subsidy. Applying our method to the Kenyan data, we find that (i) individual … ITN use rises with neighborhood subsidy-rates, (ii) under means-testing, predicted ITN use is a convex increasing function …
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