NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Health, Education, and Welfare

Welfare and Poverty


2009
w15535 Richard T. Boylan
Naci H. Mocan

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

w15488 Robert A. Moffitt
John Karl Scholz

Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support

w15435 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

w15351 Robert J. Gordon
Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

w15345 Eric V. Edmonds
Norbert Schady

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

w15311 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

w15310 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

Liquidity, Activity, Mortality

w15235 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Adam Gailey
Yuhui Zheng

International Differences in Longevity and Health and their Economic Consequences

w15231 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Yuhui Zheng
Adam Gailey

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

w15151 John C. Ham
Xianghong Li
Lara Shore-Sheppard

Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women

w15130 Jason M. Fletcher
Partha Deb
Jody L. Sindelar

Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

w15126 Thomas Dee
Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment

w15090 Angus S. Deaton
Raksha Arora

Life at the top: the benefits of height

w15080 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Dmitriy Stolyarov

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

w14995 Jeffrey E. Harris
Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi

Impact of "Seguro Popular" on Prenatal Visits in Mexico, 2002-2005: Latent Class Model of Count Data with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w14988 Neeraj Kaushal
Qin Gao

Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14966 Jesse Rothstein
Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

w14839 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Alan C. Monheit

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform

w14827 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

w14825 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Preferences for Redistribution

w14810 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14728 Cristina Yunzal-Butler
Theodore J. Joyce
Andrew D. Racine

Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment

w14720 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Anthony Harris
Haifang Huang

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

w14692 Helen Levy
David Weir

Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study

w14635 John Komlos
Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income


2008
w14599 Gordon Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

w14591 Dhaval M. Dave
Sandra Decker
Robert Kaestner
Kosali I. Simon

Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

w14589 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

w14570 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

w14545 Sherry A. Glied
Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care

w14539 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

w14507 John F. Helliwell
Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14447 Debopam Bhattacharya
Pascaline Dupas

Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints

w14337 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert Van Landeghem

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

w14301 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Wojciech Kopczuk

Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits

w14306 Douglas Almond
Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

w14282 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

w14220 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Happiness Inequality in the United States

w14157 Anupam Jena
Casey Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

The Value of Life in General Equilibrium

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14074 C. Fritz Foley
Welfare Payments and Crime

w14052 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

w14038 Jordan D. Matsudaira
Rebecca M. Blank

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

w14031 Sharon L. Maccini
Dean Yang

Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

w13982 Robert J. Gordon
Ian Dew-Becker

Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

w13931 Orazio Attanasio
Adriana Kugler
Costas Meghir

Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13926 Marianne Bertrand
Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan

Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

w13890 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Marianne Bertrand
Leigh L. Linden
Francisco Perez-Calle

Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

w13869 Trevon D. Logan
Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past

w13773 Anna Aizer
Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth


2007
w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov

Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13683 Abhijit V. Banerjee
Esther Duflo

Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

w13578 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kosali I. Simon

Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w13485 Jeffrey Grogger
Lynn Karoly

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

w13479 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?

w13413 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w13441 Andrew D. Racine
Cristina Yunzal-Butler

Reassessing the WIC Effect: Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System

w13436 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

w13375 Hanming Fang
Dan Silverman

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

w13369 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Joshua Mitchell

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

w13348 Daniel M. Hungerman
Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

w13340 Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

w13333 Gary Becker
Kevin Murphy
Tomas Philipson

The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13291 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

w13243 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

w13159 Rafael Di Tella
John Haisken-De New
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

w13087 Rodrigo R. Soares
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

w13038 Bruce A. Weinberg
Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

w13025 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Schanzenbach

Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

w13022 Jacob L. Vigdor
The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

w12973 Jens Ludwig
Deborah A. Phillips

The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

w12958 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12915 David Neumark
William Wascher

Does a Higher Minimum Wage Enhance the Effectiveness of The Earned Income Tax Credit?

w12849 Neeraj Kaushal
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12825 Ryan S. Johnson
Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback

Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression


2006
w12774 David Card
Dean R. Hyslop

The Dynamic Effects of an Earnings Subsidy for Long-Term Welfare Recipients: Evidence from the SSP Applicant Experiment

w12680 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS

w12665 Matthias Doepke
Dirk Krueger

Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

w12642 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

w12624 Neeraj Kaushal
Qin Gao
Jane Waldfogel

Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

w12505 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

w12485 Adam Ashcraft
Kevin Lang

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

w12480 Ellen Meara
Richard Frank

Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

w12366 Robert Moffitt
Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences

w12347 Ann Harrison
Globalization and Poverty

w12331 Janna L. Matlack
Jacob L. Vigdor

Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability

w12325 Dean Yang
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

w12323 Mark Duggan
Robert Rosenheck
Perry Singleton

Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program

w12284 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Income Transfers

w12208 Lara Gardner
Donna Gilleskie

The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly

w12197 Hope Corman
Anne Carroll
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman

The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families

w12111 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken

Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

w12105 Anna Aizer
Public Health Insurance, Program Take-Up, and Child Health

w12061 Louis Kaplow
Taxation

w12043 Howard Bodenhorn
Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment: Some Historical Evidence

w11988 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

w11976 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

w11939 V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Jacob A. Klerman

Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program

w11925 Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers

Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox

w11909 Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Jeffrey R. Kling
Greg J. Duncan
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment


2005
w11871 Harsha Thirumurthy
Joshua Graff-Zivin
Markus Goldstein

The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

w11835 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

w11812 Susanna Loeb
Margaret Bridges
Bruce Fuller
Russ Rumberger
Daphna Bassok

How Much is Too Much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Social and Cognitive Development

w11807 John Helliwell
Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?

w11768 Wojciech Kopczuk
Cristian Pop-Eleches

Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers, and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit

w11759 John F. Heliwell
Haifang Huang

How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

w11754 Trevon D. Logan
The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present

w11743 David H. Autor
Susan Houseman

Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'

w11742 David Autor
Susan Houseman

Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

w11704 Grant Miller
Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia

w11702 Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

w11682 Jeffrey Grogger
Markov Forecasting Methods for Welfare Caseloads

w11681 Hilary Hoynes
Marianne Page
Ann Stevens

Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

w11626 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

w11621 Jeffrey Grogger
Welfare Reform, Returns to Experience, and Wages: Using Reservation Wages to Account for Sample Selection Bias

w11612 Steven J. Haider
Kathleen McGarry

Recent Trends in Resource Sharing Among the Poor

w11577 Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey B. Liebman
Lawrence F. Katz

Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

w11568 Mark Duggan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

w11548 Robert J. Gordon
Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox

w11522 Anna Aizer
Sara McLanahan

The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Fertility, Parental Investment and Child Well-Being

w11279 Gordon B. Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

w11246 Price V. Fishback
Michael R. Haines
Shawn Kantor

Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression

w11175 Jorge F. Balat
Guido Porto

Globalization and Complementary Policies: Poverty Impacts in Rural Zambia


2004
w10931 Ann Dryden Witte
Marisol Trowbridge

The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States: Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

w10920 Karen Norberg
Partnership Status and the Human Sex Ratio at Birth

w10842 Jonathan Skinner
Weiping Zhou

The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population

w10798 Hans-Werner Sinn
Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes: How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration

w10762 Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan

Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support

w10699 Sanders Korenman
Ted Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Jennifer Walper

What Did the "Illegitimacy Bonus" Reward?

w10647 David Card
Dean R. Hyslop

Estimating the Effects of a Time Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers

w10549 Marianne Bitler
Jonah Gelbach
Hilary Hoynes

Welfare Reform and Health

w10541 Thomas Lemieux
Kevin Milligan

Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

w10508 John Cawley
Sheldon Danziger

Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work

w10488 Janet Currie
The Take Up of Social Benefits

w10466 Gary V. Engelhardt
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty

w10459 Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

w10324 Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel

The Illusion of Sustainability

w10283 Jeremy Lise
Shannon Seitz
Jeffrey Smith

Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

w10274 Erdal Tekin
Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform


2003
w10121 Marianne Bitler
Jonah Gelbach
Hilary Hoynes

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

w10091 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell

Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't?

t0295 Robert A. Moffitt
The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective from Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs

w10033 Robert Kaestner
Neeraj Kaushal

Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income Families

w9907 Anna Aizer
Jeffrey Grogger

Parental Medicaid Expansions and Health Insurance Coverage

w9851 David Neumark
Elizabeth T. Powers

The Effects of Changes in State SSI Supplements on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

w9803 John C. Ham
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?

w9781 George J. Borjas
Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

w9769 Robert Kaestner
Won Chan Lee

The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

w9760 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w9693 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt

Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

w9665 David Blau
Erdal Tekin

The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

w9532 John J. Donohue III
Steven D. Levitt

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

w9494 Raphael Desmet
Alain Jousten
Sergio Perelman
Pierre Pestieau

Micro-Stimulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

w9472 Jeffrey Grogger
Welfare Transitions in the 1990s: The Economy, Welfare Policy, and the EITC


2002
w9406 Theodore Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Sanders Korenman

Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records

w9399 Neil G. Bennett
Hsien-Hen Lu
Younghwan Song

Welfare Reform and Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Children

w9338 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Jane Waldfogel

The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census

w9236 George J. Borjas
Food Insecurity and Public Assistance

w9209 Anna Aizer
Janet Currie

Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California

w9058 David Card
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children

w9033 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

w9021 Phillip B. Levine
The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree

w9004 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Thomas DeLeire
Steven Haider
Janet Currie

Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

w9003 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Steven Haider
Janet Currie

Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

w8932 Robert Kaestner
June O'Neill

Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?

w8902 Price V. Fishback
Michael R. Haines
Shawn Kantor

The Welfare of Children During the Great Depression

w8893 Ann Witte
Magaly Queralt
Robert Witt
Harriet Griesinger

The Policy Context and Infant and Toddler Care in the Welfare Reform Era

w8886 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt

Take-Up Rates and Trade Offs After the Age of Entitlement: Some Thoughts and Empirical Evidence for Child Care Subsidies

w8820 Rebecca M. Blank
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other?

w8812 Janet Currie
John Fahr

Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization

w8786 Marianne E. Page
Ann Huff Stevens

Will You Miss Me When I Am Gone? The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents

w8784 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements

w8749 Robert Moffitt
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program


2001
w8625 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System

w8546 Hilary Hoynes
Richard Blundell

Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labour Market?

w8514 David Card
Andrew K. G. Hildreth
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

w8444 David Card
Charles Michalopoulos
Philip K. Robins

The Limits to Wage Growth: Measuring the Growth Rate of Wages For Recent Welfare Leavers

w8437 Rebecca M. Blank
David T. Ellwood

The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor

w8283 Price V. Fishback
William C. Horrace
Shawn Kantor

Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression

w8253 Richard Dickens
David T. Ellwood

Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work

w8199 Robert I. Lerman
Elaine Sorensen

Child Support: Interaction Between Private and Public Transfers

w8153 Jeffrey Grogger
The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income Among Female-Headed Families

w8078 V. Joseph Hotz
John Karl Scholz

The Earned Income Tax Credit

w8062 Shlomo Yitzhaki
A Public Finance Approach to Assessing Poverty Alleviation


2000
w8007 V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Jacob A. Klerman

The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program

w7975 John Bound
Timothy Waidmann

Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

w7861 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova

Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

w7844 Rajeev Dehejia
Was There a Riverside Miracle? A Framework for Evaluating Multi-Site Programs

w7767 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

Allocating Payroll Tax Revenue to Personal Retirement Accounts to Maintain Social Security Benefits and the Payroll Tax Rate

w7709 Jeff Grogger
Time Limits and Welfare Use

w7667 Janet Currie
Jeffrey Grogger

Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions: Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?

w7627 Robert F. Schoeni
Rebecca M. Blank

What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

w7599 David Neumark
William Wascher

Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparision with the Minimum Wage

w7583 Robert J. Lemke
Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt
Robert Witt

Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

w7574 Kathleen McGarry
Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor

w7522 Phillip B. Levine
David J. Zimmerman

Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

w7519 David Neumark
Mark Schweitzer
William Wascher

The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution

w7492 Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey Liebman

The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System

w7491 Bruce D. Meyer
Dan T. Rosenbaum

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects


1999
w7401 Anne Case
I-Fen Lin
Sara McLanahan

How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?

w7363 Bruce D. Meyer
Dan T. Rosenbaum

Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

w7353 Jeff Grogger
Charles Michalopoulos

Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits

w7343 Christina Paxson
Jane Waldfogel

Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment

w7240 Thomas J. Nechyba
Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Re-Examination of the Illegitimacy Debate

w7188 Hilary Hoynes
The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

w5774 Robert Moffitt
David Ribar
Mark Wilhelm

The Decline of Welfare Benefits in the U.S.: The Role of Wage Inequality

w7038 Robert J. Barro
Inequality, Growth, and Investment

w6998 Rebecca M. Blank
David Card
Philip K. Robins

Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

w6995 Robert A. Moffitt
Demographic Change and Public Assistance Programs

w6989 Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass

Distributional Impacts of Proposed Changes to the Social Security System

w6954 Rajeev Dehejia
Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem


1998
w6798 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt
Tasneem Chipty
Harriet Griesinger

Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor

w6793 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor

w6732 Thomas Lemieux
W. Bentley MacLeod

Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment InsuranceSystem

w6536 David Neumark
Mark Schweitzer
William Wascher

The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis

w6527 Esel Y. Yazici
Robert Kaestner

Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

w6489 Cynthia K. Gustafson
Phillip B. Levine

Less-Skilled Workers, Welfare Reform, and the Unemployment Insurance System

w6449 David Card
Philip K. Robins
Winston Lin

Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the SSP

w6362 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start


1997
w6343 Rebecca M. Blank
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?

w6305 Janet Currie
Aaron Yelowitz

Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?

w6303 David Neumark
Elizabeth Powers

The Effect of Means-Tested Income Support for the Elderly on Pre-Retirement Saving: Evidence from the SSI Program in the U.S.

w6175 George J. Borjas
Glenn T. Sueyoshi

Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency

w5251 Lars E.O. Svensson
Optimal Inflation Targets, `Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

w6047 Jeff Grogger
Stephen G. Bronars

The Effect of Welfare Payments on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers: Results from a Twins Experiment

w5988 Richard V. Burkhauser
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Stephen E. Rhody

Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s


1996
w5805 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?

t0203 Steven N. Durlauf
Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior

w5701 David Card
Philip K. Robins

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project

w5655 Patrick J. Bayer
B. Douglas Bernheim
John Karl Scholz

The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers

w5644 Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: What Have We Learned?

w5643 Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Local Labor Markets and Welfare Spells: Do Demand Conditions Matter?

w5555 Robert Kaestner
Drug Use and AFDC Participation: Is There a Connection?


1995
w5390 Ann Huff Stevens
Climbing Out of Poverty, Falling Back In: Measuring the Persistence of Poverty over Multiple Spells

w5388 Janet Currie
Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?

w5315 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel T. Slesnick

Unemployment Insurance and Household Welfare: Microeconomic Evidence 1980-93

w5296 Angus Deaton
Christina Paxson

Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly

w5250 Kathleen McGarry
Factors Determining Participation of the Elderly in SSI

w5240 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve

w5230 Sanders Korenman
Christopher Winship

A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve

w5163 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

Are Ghettos Good or Bad?

w5158 Nada Eissa
Jeffrey B. Liebman

Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit

w4884 R. Glenn Hubbard
Jonathan Skinner
Stephen P. Zeldes

Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance


1993
w4539 Janet Currie
Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers

w4429 Rebecca M. Blank
Patricia Ruggles

When Do Women Use AFDC & Food Stamps? The Dynamics of Eligibility vs. Participation

w4407 Hilary Hoynes
Welfare Transfers in Two-Parent Families: Labor Supply and Welfare Participation Under AFDC-UP

w4406 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Does Head Start Make a Difference?

w4338 Rebecca M. Blank
Richard B. Freeman

Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility


1992
w3964 David M. Cutler
Lawrence F. Katz

Rising Inequality? Changes in the Distribution of Income and Consumption in the 1980s


1991
w3920 Lawrence J. Christiano
Martin Eichenbaum

Identification and the Liquidity Effect of a Monetary Policy Shock

w3878 Rebecca M. Blank
Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s?

w3832 Janet Currie
Nancy Cole

Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?


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