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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers: Evidence from Chile
Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de Economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191
Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile's most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers' labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs, never...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486162
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398285
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The effect of welfare payments on work in a middle-income country
Araujo, María Caridad; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; … - 2017
We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are … sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find no evidence that welfare discouraged work. However, among women, welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786437
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Less cash, less crime : evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398758
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041114
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The effect of welfare payments on work in a middle-income country
Araujo, M. Caridad; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Maldonado, Rosario - 2017
We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are … sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find no evidence that welfare discouraged work. However, among women, welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785795
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H.; Frandsen, Brigham R. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643560
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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work status) has gone through a significant transformation since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331051
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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers : evidence from Chile
Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191
Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile’s most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers’ labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369577
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Mixing Welfare and Work: Evidence from the PSID, 1980-87
Chapman, Richard; Duncan, Kevin; Gray, Jerry - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 1, pp. 51-62
Evidence from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) suggests that those with a history of mixing welfare and work … are more likely to continue mixing rather than be in another welfare or labor market state. This finding supports the view … that, without a welfare subsidy, jobs held by working welfare recipients will not provide for self sufficiency. We find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005417393