coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma …There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

low-skilled (ability stigma) and of being willing to live off others (free-rider stigma). Using a placebo treatment, we … exclude other explanations for the observed stigma effects. Although stigma reduces take-up, elicitation of political …

both of being low-skilled (ability stigma) and of being willing to live o f others (free- rider stigma). Using a placebo … treatment, we exclude other explanations for the ob- served stigma effects. Although stigma reduces take-up, elicitation of …

low-skilled (ability stigma) and of being willing to live off others (free-rider stigma). Using a placebo treatment, we … exclude other explanations for the observed stigma effects. Although stigma reduces take-up, elicitation of political …