This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in United States. Using National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, leave use, costs, non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick increase significantly by 13 percentage points from a baseline level 66%. Newly covered employees take two additional days per year. We find l...

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of monopoly differential pricing in the important but largely neglected case where costs of service differ across consumer groups. Cost-based differential pricing is shown to increase total welfare and consumer welfare relative to uniform pricing for broad classes of demand functions, even though total output can still fall or the output allocation betwee...

Objectives. This study examines how welfare participation and employment affect women’s wages. Methods. We use longitudinal data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation and fixed-effects regression models to test our hypotheses. Results. Our results indicate that time spent on welfare while unemployed results in a wage penalty that is similar to the penalty associated with nonw...

The number of Internet news media outlets has grown rapidly in recent years. This paper analyzes the effects of media proliferation on electoral outcomes and social welfare. We assume voters are information-seeking but choose outlets that are excessively partisan given the voters’ own ideological preferences, due to quasi-rationality. We find that if voters who think (correctly or not) that the...

The production of public goods like amenity value of the landscape, food security, preservation of rural communities and rural lifestyle, by agricultural sector is a subject that has been widely accepted by experts. However, in many policies and political analyses carried out, solely the production of private goods by the agricultural sector is paid attention and the important function of publi...

This study examined the age-specific pattern of effects of welfare policies on child achievement. Drawing from 7 random-assignment welfare and antipoverty evaluations that provided more than 30,000 observations of children's achievement, this study found that times of developmental transition are the only periods sensitive to the changes in families brought about by these policies. More specifi...

Previous research indicates that welfare reform policies – work requirements, sanctions, and child support enforcement – had negative consequences for mothers’ health insurance coverage and use of health care service, but there is very little evidence that these policies affected maternal health. This paper examines the effects of post-reform welfare and child support policies on maternal healt...

evaluation of agricultural policies is an important issue in agricultural economics literature. economists evaluate policies on base of their welfare effects. the objective of this study is outcome subsidies removing for wheat and bread and its effect on producers and consumers. the minimization of changes in welfare loss is used in this study. the results of the welfare outcomes in wheat marke...

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of redistribution. Immigration has increa...