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Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: An Assessment of the Knowledge Base and Research Needs

Burwick, Andrew; Gates, Gary; Baumgartner, Scott; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

-sufficiency programs; (2) child welfare programs; and (3) programs for youth, especially services for runaway and homeless youth and sexual …

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Human Services for Low-Income and At-Risk LGBT Populations: The Knowledge Base and Research Needs (Brief)

Burwick, Andrew; Gates, Gary; Baumgartner, Scott; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

-sufficiency programs; (2) child welfare programs; and (3) programs for youth, especially services for runaway and homeless youth and sexual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165996

Beyond Expected Utility in the Economics of Health and Longevity

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2013

We document various limitations of the expected utility model for the study of health and longevity. The model assumes individuals are indifferent between early and late resolution of uncertainty. This assumption gives rise to predictions regarding the economic value of life that are...

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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? Evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data

Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418275

Federal/State Cost Sharing of Immigrant Welfare

Light, Ivan - In: California Journal of Politics and Policy 2 (2010) 1

their numbers fell quite unevenly on cities and regions. In the United States welfare is not exclusively a federal … responsibility. In principle, 50 states share welfare responsibilities with the federal government, but in reality five heavily … impacted states bore three-quarters of the nations immigration-related welfare burden. Additionally, legal and illegal …

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Working, But Poor: A Study of Georgia's Economic Self-Sufficiency Policies

Hayes, Rosa B. - 2006

The "work first" philosophy of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act sent millions of people into the labor force, many for the first time. The result was a dramatic increase in the number of workers whose earnings failed to pull them and their families out of...

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …

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Welfare rules, incentives, and family structure

Moffitt, Robert A.; Phelan, Brian J.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2015

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, has assumed that the rules of those … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

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Inter-generational effects of disability benefits : evidence from Canadian social assistance programs

Chen, Kelly; Osberg, Lars; Phipps, Shelley A. - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 873-910

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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data

Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341908