نتایج جستجو برای: welfare recipients
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Can economic incentives be used to affect marriage behavior and slow the growth of single-parent families? This paper provides new evidence on the effects of welfare benefit incentives on the marital decisions of poor women. Exogenous variation in welfare program parameters arises from a randomized experiment carried out in California. Whereas previous studies have measured women’s responses to...
Recent studies have concluded that Medicaid enrollment fell over the past several years, both nationally and in California, for people leaving cash welfare. This ostensible decline occurred despite expansions to Medicaid eligibility and increases in outreach efforts designed to encourage people to continue using Medicaid after leaving welfare. Some of the ostensible decline in enrollment may ha...
CONTEXT Rising costs of medications and inequities in access have sparked calls for drug policy reform in the United States and Canada. Control of drug expenditures by prescription cost-sharing for elderly persons and poor persons is a contentious issue because little is known about the health impact in these subgroups. OBJECTIVES To determine (1) the impact of introducing prescription drug c...
It has long been understood by welfare researchers that the welfare caseload is quite diverse. Heterogeneity has assumed particular importance in the welfare reform environment of the 1990s because welfare recipients with different characteristics are likely to have different capacities for responding to work-oriented reform. This paper constructs measures of heterogeneity based on the recipien...
An often-cited difficulty with moving low-income families out of welfare and into the labor force is the lack of health insurance in many low-wage jobs. Consequently, many low-income household heads may be reluctant to leave welfare and thereby lose health insurance coverage for their children. The expansions in the Medicaid program to cover low-income children and pregnant women who are not el...
Prior research on gift giving has often treated “making recipients happy” as interchangeable with “improving recipients’ welfare.” We propose givers’ motive to make recipients happy is better understood as a desire to induce positive affective reactions, such as a smile from recipients. This “smile-seeking” motive yields a mismatch between gift choices and recipients’ preferences, because attri...
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types benefits are becoming more common in many states. We evaluate a law change Norway making receipt conditional on participation an activation program for all below the age 30. Analysing program's staggered implementation across municipalities with several modern event study estimators, we estimate that had...
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