Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 95-122
reduced poverty. Yet given the extent of public resources invested, was this the most that policy makers could expect in terms … of reducing poverty? To answer this question, I estimate a discrete choice model of work and welfare participation … decisions, and use the behavioral estimates to derive the policy parameters that would have minimized poverty among lone mothers …