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An assessment of the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs in the United States

Ben-Shalom, Yonatan; Moffitt, Robert; Scholz, John Karl - 2011

We assess the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. We show that per capita expenditures on these programs as a whole have grown over time but expenditures on some programs have declined. The benefit system in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty...

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Do men and women "lockdown" differently? : examining Panama's COVID-19 sex-segregated social distancing policy

Woskie, Liana; Wenham, Clare - In: Feminist economics 27 (2021) 1/2, pp. 327-344

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Assessing a welfare program's effects on social mobility in Brazil's "golden age" : the intersectionality of race, gender, and redistributive social programs in two Brazilian citie...

Kaknes, Elizabeth - In: The review of black political economy : analyzing … 49 (2022) 4, pp. 475-504

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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries

Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income … changes to their lives, and overall they are less supportive of these measures. These patterns are less clear across income … groups: while some countries have managed to shield lower income individuals from negative consequences, others have not. We …

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Unequal consequences of COVID 19 across age and income : representative evidence from six countries

Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020

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Empirie sozialer Mobilität und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Berthold, Norbert; Gründler, Klaus - In: Ordo : Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und … 65 (2014), pp. 279-302

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[Rezension von: Kelly, Charles M., Class war in America: how economic and political conservatives are exploiting low- and middle-income Americans]

Pigeon, Marc-André - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 35 (2001) 3, pp. 765-769

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Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility : Evidence from Norway's “Reform 94”

Bertrand, Marianne - 2019

High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general...

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany : State Dependence Before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - 2014

In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...

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