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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009
public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294856
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Social Norms and Moral Hazard
Dufwenberg, Martin; Lundholm, Michael - 1997
The probability of income loss depends on talent and effort. Effort has positive externalities and therefore individuals are proportion to their perceived diligence. The social norm requires more effort from individuals perceived as more talented, but talent is private information and...
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being: A quantile approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2014
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …
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Medicaid-ing uninsurance? The impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on uninsurance spells
Heim, Bradley T.; Lurie, Ithai; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2023
We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...
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Does access to free pre-kindergarten increase maternal labor supply?
Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2022
In this paper, we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs on the labor force participation (LFP) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causal effects of access to pre-K on...
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Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Warrinnier, Nele - 2016
This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the...
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Earnings, income and poverty among welfare leavers in Sweden
Persson, Anna - 2011
Given the trend towards more active policies on reducing the take-up of welfare benefits, the consequences of leaving welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among welfare leavers in Sweden during 19 years...
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
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Unemployment Insurance and the Duration of Employment: Theory and Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
Britto, Diogo - 2016
Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … elasticity affects welfare with a similar magnitude as the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to the benefit level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739622