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Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance
Clemens, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Community rating regulations equalize the insurance premiums faced by the healthy and the unhealthy. Intended reductions in the unhealthy's premiums can be undone, however, if the healthy forgo coverage. The severity of this adverse selection problem hinges largely on how health care costs are...
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The Impact of Medicaid on Labor Force Activity and Program Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Song, Jae; Baicker, Katherine; Finkelstein, Amy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery for the chance to apply for Medicaid. We use this randomized design and 2009 administrative data to evaluate the effect of Medicaid on labor market outcomes and participation in other social safety net programs. We...
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload...
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Low-Income Housing Policy
Collinson, Robert; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The United States government devotes about $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so in tax expenditures on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). What exactly do we spend this money on, why, and what does it accomplish? We focus on these...
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Nearly two years after the official end of the "Great Recession," the labor market remains historically weak. One candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to as many as 99 weeks. This paper investigates the...
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Family Welfare Cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
welfare receipt across generations has created a culture in which welfare use reinforces itself through the family. Others … argue the determinants of poverty or poor health are correlated across generations, so that children's welfare participation … these claims. In this paper, we investigate the existence and importance of family welfare cultures in the context of Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796735
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The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Ganong, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program …
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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
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries...
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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first …-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in … children's development, in which case transfer programs need not improve poor children's long-term life chances. While several …
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