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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne Christina; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...

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Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status

Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper calculates monthly time series for the overall safety net's statutory marginal labor income tax rate as a function of skill and marital status. Marginal tax rates increased significantly for all groups between 2007 and 2009, and dramatically so for unmarried household heads. The...

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Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women

Shore-Sheppard, Lara; Ham, John C.; Li, Xianghong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Panel surveys generally suffer from "seam bias"--too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many reported between interviews. Seam bias is likely to affect duration models severely since both the start date and the end date of a spell may be misreported. In this paper we...

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The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

Vigdor, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the presence of moving costs, individuals may remain in a region even when they expect to attain a higher standard of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on living standards could be positive or negative. This paper...

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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric; Schady, Norbert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...

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The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

Blank, Rebecca M.; Matsudaira, Jordan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of changes in earnings disregards for welfare assistance received by single mothers … following welfare reform in 1996. Some states adopted much higher earnings disregards (women could work full time and still … receive welfare), while other states did not. We explore the effect of these changes on women's labor supply and income using …

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Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

Fang, Hanming; Silverman, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We empirically implement a dynamic structural model of labor supply and welfare program participation for never … NLSY 1979, we provide estimates of the degree of time-inconsistency, and of its influence on the welfare take-up decision … commit to future decisions, and the potential utility gains from commitment mechanisms such as welfare time limits and work …

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Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: What Have We Learned?

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Welfare reform has once again made its way to the top of the domestic policy agenda. While part of the motivation … sources of variation in welfare policy: cross-state variation, over time variation, and demonstration projects at the state …

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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Angrist, Joshua; Chen, Stacey; Frandsen, Brigham R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...

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The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

Jacob, Brian A.; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Evidence for the net effects of housing programs on labor supply is central to a wide range of policy decisions about how to provide...

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