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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
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Religiosity and State Welfare
Dills, Angela; Hernández-Julián, Rey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
spending on welfare may substitute for the religious provision of social services, we consider whether this plausibly exogenous … decline in religiosity affected several measures of the public taste towards government spending on welfare between 1990 and … President and state legislatures, and an increase in per capita government welfare spending, although this increase is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969278
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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969308
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969427
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Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
Duflo, Esther; Benhassine, Najy; Devoto, Florencia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950637
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Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments
Kimball, Miles Spencer; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We propose a social choice rule for aggregating preferences elicited from surveys into a marginal adjustment of policy from the status quo. The mechanism is: (i) symmetric in its treatment of survey respondents; (ii) ordinal, using only the orientation of respondents' indifference surfaces;...
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The Long Term Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families
Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Mothers' Pension program--the first government-sponsored welfare program in the US (1911-1935) --and matched them to census …
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Is the Affordable Care Act Different from Romneycare? A Labor Economics Perspective
Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Measured in percentage points, the Affordable Care Act will, by 2015, add about fourteen times more to average marginal labor income tax rates nationwide than the Massachusetts health reform added to average rates in Massachusetts following its 2006 statewide health reform. The rate impacts are...
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Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start
Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Domina, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the distributional effects of Head Start, using the first national randomized experiment of the Head Start program (the Head Start Impact Study). We examine program effects on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes and explore the...
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
significantly enhance "state capacity" to implement welfare programs in developing countries. …
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