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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

Schoeni, Robert F. - 2000

, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

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The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court : Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program

Cassidy, Michael T.; Currie, Janet M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

housing court to tenants with income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. We find that tenants who gain …

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Inequality in India Declined During COVID

Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartosz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

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Poverty Among the Elderly : Where are the Holes in the Safety Net?

Boskin, Michael J. - 1986

Using data from the longitudinal retirement history survey (RHS), we examine the economic status of the cohort of the elderly who were 68 -73 years old by 1979 to see who fell through the safety net in the 1970s. Our most important finding is that a non-trivial fraction of the elderly in the...

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Poverty in America : Is Welfare the Answer or the Problem?

Ellwood, David T. - 1985

This paper reviews the current policies for fighting poverty and explores the impact they have had. We begin by … reviewing trends in poverty, poverty spending and economic performance. It is immediately apparent that economic performance is … the dominant determinant of the measured poverty rate over the past two decades. Government assistance programs expanded …

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

Bessone, Pedro - 2020

This paper measures sleep among the urban poor in India and estimates the economic returns to increased sleep. Adults in Chennai have strikingly low quantity and quality of sleep relative to typical guidelines: despite spending 8 hours in bed, they achieve only 5.6 hours per night of sleep, with...

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The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of large income changes, through unconditional cash transfers, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is...

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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

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Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020

The income elasticity of labor supply is a central parameter of many economic models. We test how labor supply and effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi-faceted grant program combined with a bag-making operation. We...

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