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A Political Economy Perspective on Redistribution and Growth in Transition

Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Poland undertook a rapid and decisive set of political and economic reforms starting in 1989-90, a period that has become known as the big bang. A widely held view is that, in all of the transition economies, the economic upheaval associated with the process of transition has led to substantial...

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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures.

Bertrand, M.; Luttmer, E.F.P.; Mullainathan, S. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1998

This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to distinguish the effect of...

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Low-Income Housing Policy

Collinson, Robert; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The United States government devotes about $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so in tax expenditures on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). What exactly do we spend this money on, why, and what does it accomplish? We focus on these...

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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...

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Simple tests for selection bias : learning more from instrumental variables

Black, Dan A.; Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert John; … - 2015

We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the...

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The crime effect of refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: Lessons from other OECD nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …

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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US : lessons from other OECD nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: lessons from other OECD nations

Burkhauser, Richard; Daly, Mary; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-30

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Striking While the Iron is Hot: The Effect of Vocational Rehabilitation Service Wait Times on Employment Outcomes for Applicants Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits.

Honeycutt, Todd; Stapleton, David - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

services. This study explores the effect of waiting for VR services on employment outcomes for Social Security Disability …

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