Distributional impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

A large literature has been concerned with the impacts of recent welfare reforms on income, earnings, transfers, and labor-force attachment. While one strand of this literature relies on observational studies conducted with large survey-sample data sets, a second makes use of data generated by experimental evaluations of changes to means-tested programs. Much of the overall literature has focus...

The Effect of the Self-Sufficiency Project on Children

Explaining and Forecasting Results of The Self-Sufficiency Project

This paper models the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a controlled randomized experiment concerning welfare. The model of household behavior includes stochastic labor market skill, job opportunities, and value of non-labor market time. All the variation within and between treatment groups, jurisdictions (provinces), demographic groups, and subexperiments is derived from four underlying sources:...

Estimation and Inference in Social Experiments: The Self-Sufficiency Project and The Dynamics of Income Assistance

Access to the SSP data was made possible through a research contract with Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC). This paper is preliminary, and results are presented for the purposes of discussion alone. Research support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is also gratefully acknowledged. I thank: Alice Nakamura for comments on an earlier draft, Lau...

Computing Efficiency, Sufficiency, and Self-sufficiency: A Model for Sustainability?

Computing is an activity that is based on natural resources like any other human activity. Technological progress has made it possible to perform more and more computations with less material and energy input. This paper looks at this development through the lens of the three concepts of efficiency, sufficiency, and self-sufficiency, asking the question of whether it could lead to a state of se...