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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

Autor, David H. - 2019

There is no evaluation of the consequences of Disability Insurance (DI) receipt that captures the effects on households' net income and consumption expenditure, family labor supply, or benefits from other programs. Combining detailed register data from Norway with an instrumental variables...

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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants

Kostøl, Andreas R.; Mogstad, Magne - 2015

Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...

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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

Autor, David H. - 2017

While a mature literature finds that Disability Insurance (DI) receipt discourages work, the welfare implications of these findings depend on two rarely studied economic quantities: the full cost of DI allowances to taxpayers, summing over DI transfer payments, benefit substitution to or from...

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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality

Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit - 2014

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …

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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? Evidence from a workfare reform in a generous welfare state

Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - 2009

There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...

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Peer effects in program participation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 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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Chapter 59 Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs

Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3787-3846). 2007

The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...

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Peer Effects in Program Participation

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State

Mogstad, Magne - 2009

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Family Welfare Cultures

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2014

Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...

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