Distributional impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.07.001