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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Numerous laboratory studies find that minor nuances of presentation and description change behavior in ways that are inconsistent with standard economic models. How much do these context effect matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to...

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Food Stamp spending, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social … the Great Recession. We do so using an alternative measure of poverty that incorporates taxes and in-kind transfers. We … disadvantaged. In the post-welfare reform world, TANF did not respond in the Great Recession and extreme poverty is more cyclical …

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Do In-Work Tax Credits Serve as a Safety Net?

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Kuka, Elira - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The cash and near cash safety net in the U.S. has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past fifteen years. Federal welfare reform has led to the "elimination of welfare as we know it" and several tax reforms have substantially increased the role of "in-work"' assistance. In 2010, we spent...

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

trends in program participation, income, and poverty among immigrants (and natives). We pay particular attention to the …

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What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

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...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Labor market outcomes of welfare reform have been the subject of extensive research by economists, but there has been relatively little work on living arrangements, which was an important focus of reformers. Our research fills that gap by using data from the March CPS to examine the impacts of...

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Welfare Reform and Health

Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We investigate the relationship between welfare reform and health insurance, health care utilization, and self-reported measures of health status for women aged 20-45, using nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We present estimates from both...

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Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The stated goals of welfare reform are to increase work, reduce dependency on welfare, reduce births outside marriage, and to increase the formation of two parent families. However, welfare reform may also have indirect impacts on health. We provide a comprehensive review of the literature on...

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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

predictions about poverty and deprivation, the previous research shows that caseloads declined and employment increased, with no … detectible increase in poverty or worsening of child-well-being. We re-evaluate these results in light of the severe recession … children is more responsive after reform, and some evidence that it might be less so. There is some evidence that poverty …

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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Beaman, Lori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We partnered with a micro‐lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no- loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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