Do Welfare Policies Matter for Labor Market Aggregates? Quantifying Safety Net Work Incentives since 2007

Casey B. Mulligan

NBER Working Paper No. 18088
Issued in May 2012

---- Acknowledgements -----

I appreciate conversations with Gary Becker, Christian Ferrada, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Bruce Meyer, and Rob Shimer, seminar participants at the University of Chicago and the UC-Irvine, and the research assistance of Sophie Wang. I also appreciate the financial support of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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