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Effects of Welfare Reform on Illicit Drug Use of Adult Women

Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E.; Das, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time and comparing relevant population subgroups within an econometric difference-in-differences framework, we estimate the causal effects of welfare reform on adult women's illicit drug use from 1992 to 2002, the period during which...

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Welfare Payments and Crime

Foley, C. Fritz - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of welfare payments affects criminal activity. Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes...

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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Tekin, Erdal; Wright, Richard; Topalli, Volkan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the...

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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

Donohue, John J.; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Donohue and Levitt (2001) present a number of analyses that suggest a causal link between legalized abortion and reductions in crime almost two decades later when the cohorts exposed to legalized abortion reach their peak crime years. Joyce (2003) challenges that finding. In this paper, we...

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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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Average Marginal Labor Income Tax Rates under the Affordable Care Act

Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

implicit subsidies for underemployment, and expanded Medicaid eligibility for adults. Every sector of the economy, and about …

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Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?

Shore-Sheppard, Lara; Ham, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

) showing that expansions in Medicaid eligibility for children were associated with increased labor force participation and … addressed, the Medicaid income limits have no significant effect on AFDC participation. The AFDC income limits, however, are …

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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Miller, Douglas Lee; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program%u2019s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties in the U.S. to develop Head Start funding proposals. The...

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Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform

Buchmueller, Thomas; Monheit, Alan C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The central role that employers play in financing health care is a distinctive feature of the U.S. health care system, and the provision of health insurance through the workplace has important implications well beyond its role as source of health care financing. In this paper, we consider the...

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Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … that may be correlated with expansions in Medicaid eligibility. We combine estimates from the two sets of analyses to … uninsured came with the expense of a substantial reduction in private insurance coverage. Changes in Medicaid eligibility were …

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