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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019
Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161467
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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, economic, and political determinants
Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013
variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335556
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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies : demographic, economic, and political determinants
Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013
variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226099
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Are there returns to experience at low-skill jobs? : evidence from single mothers in the United States over the 1990s
Looney, Adam; Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2016
Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children. We then examine the economic return to this increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471504
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464956
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464983
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232107
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Welfare to work in the US : a model for Germany?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001
Social assistance in Germany reduces the incentive to work. TheU. S. Welfare to Work Programme tries to avoid such disincentives. It consists essentially of two elements: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for employees in low wage occupations and a Workfare model. The EITC and the Workfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399661
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195419
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Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality : what explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?
Lehner, Lukas; Parolin, Zachary; Wilmers, Nathan - 2024
From 2010 to 2019, personal earnings inequality declined in the United States (U.S.) for the first time in decades, yet … household income inequality continued to increase. Discordance between trends in personal earnings inequality and household … income inequality was greater than in any other decade in recent U.S. history. We introduce a framework to decompose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502793