We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...

We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...

General Assistance (GA) programs are virtually unstudied. Yet, GA programs serve an economically vulnerable, non-trivial population that should be of interest. To begin to address this shortcoming, two welfare-to-work programs, in which GA recipients participated, are studied. Using a...

In 1999 general assistance recipients in New York City were required to participate in a job training and outplacement assistance program. Initially, recipients were enrolled in 'waves' due to capacity constraints. The program's impact is identified using a quasiexperiment in which selectees are...

Starting in 1995, welfare recipients were required to participate in a mandatory workfare program. Initially, recipients were enrolled in weekly waves. I identify the effect of enrolling recipients (who were previously unexposed to welfare reform) in the program using a natural experiment in...