income lost. Female and younger recipients, as well as those with more subjectively defined disabilities, were able to …

poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … supplies of American adults have a positive income gradient, the heterogeneity in labor supplies generates considerable … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … sources of disposable income across the income distribution and estimating the contributions of different policy instruments … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program … participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and …

People with an uncertain health condition might face a double worry. They fear to get disabled, and if they are … disabled, that they will receive a low pension. To keep their health they should work less. To improve their disability pension … self against the income loss of a bad event, the bad event is more likely to happen. Comparing register data from disabled …