NBER Papers in JEL Code I3: Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

2022
w29951 Rainer Kotschy
David E. Bloom

A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
w29930 Resul Cesur
Núria Rodriguez-Planas
Jennifer Roff
David Simon

Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
w29927 Eric Chyn
Diego Daruich

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
w29922 E. Jason Baron
Max Gross

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
w29893 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

The Female Happiness Paradox
w29878 Bruce D. Meyer
Connacher Murphy
James X. Sullivan

Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data
w29877 David Silver
Jonathan Zhang

Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program
w29870 Kevin Corinth
Bruce D. Meyer
Derek Wu

The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families
w29854 Irwin Garfinkel
Laurel Sariscsany
Elizabeth Ananat
Sophie M. Collyer
Robert Paul Hartley
Buyi Wang
Christopher Wimer

The Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child Allowance
w29848 Sandra Aguilar-Gomez
Holt Dwyer
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Matthew J. Neidell

This is Air: The "Non-Health" Effects of Air Pollution
w29836 Michael T. Cassidy
Janet Currie

The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
w29816 Patrick Agte
Arielle Bernhardt
Erica M. Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
w29800 Manasi Deshpande
Michael G. Mueller-Smith

Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI
w29796 Debraj Ray
Garance Genicot

Measuring Upward Mobility
w29764 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Karen A. Kopecky

The Downward Spiral
w29758 Sandra García
Juan Saavedra

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education
w29754 Anna Aizer
Hilary W. Hoynes
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
w29694 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Education and Income Gradients in Longevity: The Role of Policy
w29660 Benjamin Hansen
Joseph J. Sabia
Jessamyn Schaller

Schools, Job Flexibility, and Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic
w29652 Pablo A. Celhay
Bruce D. Meyer
Nikolas Mittag

What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
w29645 Cody Cook
Lindsey Currier
Edward L. Glaeser

Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults
2021
w29595 Elira Kuka
Bryan A. Stuart

Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-Up
w29584 David Sungho Park
Shilpa Aggarwal
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
Jonathan Robinson
Alan Spearot

Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
w29539 Jean-Felix Brouillette
Charles I. Jones
Peter J. Klenow

Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States
w29486 Ann P. Bartel
Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Meredith Slopen
Jane Waldfogel

Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
w29407 Nathan Barker
Gharad T. Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher R. Udry

Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana
w29395 Michelle M. Marcus
Katherine G. Yewell

The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
w29384 Jessie Handbury
Sarah Moshary

School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
w29383 Martin Ravallion
Shaohua Chen

Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China
w29366 Kevin Corinth
Bruce D. Meyer
Matthew Stadnicki
Derek Wu

The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of Replacing a Child Tax Credit with a Child Allowance
w29362 Orazio Attanasio
Sarah Cattan
Costas Meghir

Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty
w29341 Sam Trejo
Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado
Brian Jacob

The Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children
w29340 Clare A. Balboni
Oriana Bandiera
Robin Burgess
Maitreesh Ghatak
Anton Heil

Why do people stay poor?
w29285 Zachary Parolin
Elizabeth Ananat
Sophie M. Collyer
Megan Curran
Christopher Wimer

The Initial Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Material Hardship
w29278 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life: Evidence from the National Child Development Survey
w29258 Lucie Schmidt
Lara Shore-Sheppard
Tara Watson

The Effect of Safety Net Generosity on Maternal Mental Health and Risky Health Behaviors
w29199 Martin Ravallion
Shaohua Chen

Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
w29198 Haaris Mateen
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Jungyoll Yun

Income-Contingent Loans As an Unemployment Benefit
w29188 Jeehoon Han
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform
w29184 Pablo A. Celhay
Bruce D. Meyer
Nikolas Mittag

Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications
w29180 Witold Więcek
Amrita Ahuja
Esha Chaudhuri
Michael Kremer
Alexandre Simoes Gomes
Christopher Snyder
Alex Tabarrok
Brandon Joel Tan

Testing Fractional doses of COVID-19 Vaccines
w29098 Stephen R.G. Jones
Fabian Lange
W. Craig Riddell
Casey Warman

Canadian Labour Market Dynamics During COVID-19
w29092 John F. Helliwell
Max B. Norton
Shun Wang
Lara B. Aknin
Haifang Huang

Well-being Analysis Favours a Virus-Elimination Strategy for COVID-19
w29072 James J. Heckman
Colleen P. Loughlin

Are Student-Athletes Exploited?
w29070 Emily Aiken
Suzanne Bellue
Dean Karlan
Christopher R. Udry
Joshua Blumenstock

Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
w29056 Orazio Attanasio
Lina Cardona Sosa
Carlos Medina
Costas Meghir
Christian Manuel Posso-Suárez

Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
w29055 Oeindrila Dube
Sendhil Mullainathan
Devin G. Pope

A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments: A Mystery-Shopping Approach
w29054 Hope Corman
Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy Reichman
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Effects of Welfare Reform on Household Food Insecurity Across Generations
w29040 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America
w29037 Jordan W. Jones
Charles J. Courtemanche
Augustine Denteh
James Marton
Rusty Tchernis

Do State SNAP Policies Influence Program Participation among Seniors?
w29028 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael J. Wither

When Is Tinkering with Safety Net Programs Harmful to Beneficiaries?
w28953 Eric Chyn
Lawrence F. Katz

Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects
w28936 Hunt Allcott
Matthew Gentzkow
Lena Song

Digital Addiction
w28924 Reshmaan N. Hussam
Erin M. Kelley
Gregory V. Lane
Fatima T. Zahra

The Psychosocial Value of Employment
w28890 Martin Ravallion
Missing Top Income Recipients
w28877 Colin Gray
Adam Leive
Elena Prager
Kelsey B. Pukelis
Mary Zaki

Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply
w28852 Manasi Deshpande
Lee Lockwood

Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance
w28819 Jan Marcus
Thomas Siedler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth

The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
w28803 Christine Logel
Philip Oreopoulos
Uros Petronijevic

Experiences and Coping Strategies of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28791 Kristjana Baldursdottir
Paul McNamee
Edward C. Norton
Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdóttir

Life Satisfaction and Body Mass Index: Estimating the Monetary Value of Achieving Optimal Body Weight
w28789 Jesse Kalinowski
Matthew B. Ross
Stephen L. Ross

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
w28784 Mika Akesaka
Peter Eibich
Chie Hanaoka
Hitoshi Shigeoka

Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles
w28752 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Michał Myck
Monika Oczkowska

Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss
w28728 Martin Ravallion
On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
w28725 Melissa S. Kearney
Brendan M. Price
Riley Wilson

Disability Insurance in the Great Recession: Ease of Access, Program Enrollment, and Local Hysteresis
w28721 Olivia S. Mitchell
Robert L. Clark
Annamaria Lusardi

What Explains Low Old-Age Income? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
w28705 Sara Heller
When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments
w28689 Atila Abdulkadiroğlu
Aram Grigoryan

Priority-based Assignment with Reserves and Quotas
w28672 Ann P. Bartel
Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Meredith Slopen
Jane Waldfogel

The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Employers: Evidence from New York
w28664 Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Alicia Marguerie
Patrick Premand

Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire
w28641 Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Elan Satriawan
Sudarno Sumarto

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
w28636 Roberto Chang
Humberto Martínez
Andrés Velasco

Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy: A Dynamic Model
w28601 Maddalena Ferranna
JP Sevilla
David E. Bloom

Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks
w28575 Arnar Buason
Edward C. Norton
Paul McNamee
Edda Bjork Thordardottir
Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdóttir

The Causal Effect of Depression and Anxiety on Life Satisfaction: An Instrumental Variable Approach
w28531 Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Monica P. Bhatt
Philip J. Cook
Jonathan M.V. Davis
Kenneth Dodge
George Farkas
Roland G. Fryer Jr
Susan Mayer
Harold Pollack
Laurence Steinberg

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
w28508 Morris A. Davis
Jesse M. Gregory
Daniel A. Hartley
Kegon T.K. Tan

Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers
w28507 Lucie Gadenne
Samuel Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
w28454 David J. Harding
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Greg J. Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lawrence F. Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey R. Kling
Matthew Sciandra
Jens Ludwig

Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Non-Experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
w28443 Erica M. Field
Elisa M. Maffioli

Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
w28438 Daniel J. Benjamin
Jakina Debnam Guzman
Marc Fleurbaey
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball

What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
w28422 Steve Cicala
The Incidence of Extreme Economic Stress: Evidence from Utility Disconnections
w28398 Jacob Goldin
Tatiana Homonoff
Rizwan Javaid
Brenda Schafer

Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and EITC Participation
w28386 Timothy N. Bond
Jillian B. Carr
Analisa Packham
Jonathan Smith

Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance
w28370 Martin Ravallion
Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
w28333 Claudio Lucarelli
Sean Nicholson
Nicholas Tilipman

Price Indices and the Value of Innovation with Heterogenous Patients
w28318 Rosangela Bando
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler

Another brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
w28317 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Moms' Time--Married or Not
2020
w28311 Marika Cabral
Bokyung Kim
Maya Rossin-Slater
Molly Schnell
Hannes Schwandt

Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
w28229 Bruce D. Meyer
Derek Wu
Grace Finley
Patrick Langetieg
Carla Medalia
Mark Payne
Alan Plumley

The Accuracy of Tax Imputations: Estimating Tax Liabilities and Credits Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
w28221 Jacob Goldin
Tatiana Homonoff
Katherine Meckel

Issuance and Incidence: SNAP Benefit Cycles and Grocery Prices
w28207 Robert L. Clark
Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

Financial Fragility during the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28177 Angus Deaton
Paul Schreyer

GDP, Wellbeing, and Health: Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program
w28157 John C. Haltiwanger
Mark J. Kutzbach
Giordano E. Palloni
Henry Pollakowski
Matthew Staiger
Daniel Weinberg

The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes
w28147 Shaohua Chen
Martin Ravallion

Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China
w28144 David N.F. Bell
David G. Blanchflower

The U-shape of Happiness in Scotland
w28143 David G. Blanchflower
Carol Graham

Happiness and Aging in the United States
w28132 Jeffrey E. Harris
Geospatial Analysis of the September 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak at the University of Wisconsin - Madison: Did a Cluster of Local Bars Play a Critical Role?
w28122 Aparna Soni
Erdal Tekin

How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
w28095 John F. Helliwell
David Gyarmati
Craig Joyce
Heather Orpana

Building an Epidemiology of Happiness
w28086 Elizabeth Linos
Allen Prohofsky
Aparna Ramesh
Jesse Rothstein
Matt Unrath

Can Nudges Increase Take-up of the EITC?: Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments
w28077 Nancy Reichman
Hope Corman
Dhaval M. Dave
Ariel Kalil
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Effects of Welfare Reform on Parenting
w28074 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Garima Sharma

Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
w28037 Péter Hudomiet
Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

The Age Profile of Life-satisfaction After Age 65 in the U.S.
hoyn-1 Hilary W. Hoynes
Camille Landais
and Johannes Spinnewijn
organizers

Inequality and Public Policy, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar 2018
w27911 Robert A. Moffitt
James P. Ziliak

Covid-19 and the U.S. Safety Net
w27848 David M. Cutler
Kaushik Ghosh
Kassandra Messer
Trivellore Raghunathan
Allison B. Rosen
Susan T. Stewart

A Satellite Account for Health in the United States
w27835 Pablo Mitnik
Anne-Line Helsø
Victoria L. Bryant

Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
w27814 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

Unemployment Disrupts Sleep
w27812 Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Michele Giannola
Milagros Nores

Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions
w27811 Xiaoning Huang
Neeraj Kaushal
Julia Shu-Huah Wang

What Explains the Gap in Welfare Use among Immigrants and Natives?
w27808 Martin Ravallion
On the Origins of the Idea of Ending Poverty
w27805 Vellore Arthi
John Parman

Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing: Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19
w27796 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19
w27757 David E. Bloom
Michael Kuhn
Klaus Prettner

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
w27753 Isaac Swensen
Jason M. Lindo
Krishna Regmi

Stable Income, Stable Family
w27729 Jeehoon Han
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27717 Jacob Bastian
Lance Lochner

The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?
w27695 Naoki Aizawa
You Suk Kim

Public and Private Provision of Information in Market-Based Public Programs: Evidence from Advertising in Health Insurance Marketplaces
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27583 Lasse Brune
Dean Karlan
Sikandra Kurdi
Christopher R. Udry

Social Protection amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
w27564 Quentin Stoeffler
Michael Carter
Catherine Guirkinger
Wouter Gelade

The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso
w27549 Caitlin S. Brown
Martin Ravallion

Inequality and the Coronavirus: Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties
w27523 Anna Aizer
Shari Eli
Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
w27417 Leonardo Bursztyn
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott

Misinformation During a Pandemic
w27351 Diego Daruich
Raquel Fernández

Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment
w27311 Tatiana Homonoff
Jason Somerville

Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP
w27267 Alexander Ahammer
Analisa Packham

Dying to Work: Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Health
w27209 Peter Bergman
Eric W. Chan
Adam Kapor

Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment
w27198 Aprajit Mahajan
Christian Michel
Alessandro Tarozzi

Identification of Time-Inconsistent Models: The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets
w27157 Matthew W. Ridley
Gautam Rao
Frank Schilbach
Vikram H. Patel

Poverty, Depression, and Anxiety: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms
w27095 João Granja
Christos Makridis
Constantine Yannelis
Eric Zwick

Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?
w27082 Thiemo R. Fetzer
Marc Witte
Lukas Hensel
Jon Jachimowicz
Johannes Haushofer
Andriy Ivchenko
Stefano Caria
Elena Reutskaja
Christopher P. Roth
Stefano Fiorin
Margarita Gómez
Gordon Kraft-Todd
Friedrich M. Götz
Erez Yoeli

Global Behaviors and Perceptions at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27033 Maria D. Fitzpatrick
Cassandra Benson
Samuel R. Bondurant

Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Role of Teachers and Schools in Reporting Child Maltreatment
w27018 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
w26987 Sydney C. Ludvigson
Sai Ma
Serena Ng

COVID-19 and The Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters
w26966 Jeff Larrimore
Jacob Mortenson
David Splinter

Presence and Persistence of Poverty in U.S. Tax Data
w26951 Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez
M. Utku Unver
M. Bumin Yenmez

Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing
w26942 Martha J. Bailey
Hilary W. Hoynes
Maya Rossin-Slater
Reed Walker

Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program
w26933 Pierre-André Chiappori
Monica Costa Dias
Sam Crossman
Costas Meghir

Changes in Assortative Matching and Inequality in Income: Evidence for the UK
w26888 David G. Blanchflower
Carol L. Graham

The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being: Economists (Who Find It) Versus Psychologists (Who Don't)!
w26871 Adam Sacarny
Katherine Baicker
Amy Finkelstein

Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
w26869 Charles J. Courtemanche
David E. Frisvold
David Jimenez-Gomez
Mariétou Ouayogodé
Michael Price

Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
w26858 Chao Fu
Nicolás Grau
Jorge Rivera

Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime
w26840 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Happiness and the Quality of Government
w26834 Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Iben Bolvig
Mette Foged
Linea Hasager
Giovanni Peri

Language Training and Refugees' Integration
w26787 Philip Armour
Melanie A. Zaber

Does Student Loan Forgiveness Drive Disability Application?
w26747 Brad Hershbein
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Luke W. Pardue

College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise
w26730 Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries
w26725 Katherine Meckel
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? Unintended Effects of Payment Reform in a Quantity-based Transfer Program
w26718 Katherine Meckel
Maya Rossin-Slater
Lindsey M. Uniat

Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program
w26642 David G. Blanchflower
Unhappiness and age
w26641 David G. Blanchflower
Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries
w26639 Hansoo Ko
Renata E. Howland
Sherry A. Glied

The Effects of Income on Children's Health: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income Eligibility under New York State Medicaid
2019
w26563 Maya Rossin-Slater
Molly Schnell
Hannes Schwandt
Sam Trejo
Lindsey Uniat

Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
w26532 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kevin Corinth
James Elwell
Jeff Larrimore

Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
w26529 John F. Helliwell
Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
w26515 Eric Chyn
Kareem Haggag

Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation
w26504 Lucie Schmidt
Lara Shore-Sheppard
Tara Watson

The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion
w26476 Daniel L. Dench
Theodore J. Joyce

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited
w26433 Mark Borgschulte
Heepyung Cho
Darren Lubotsky

Partisanship and Survey Refusal
w26400 Kevin Lang
Kaiwen Leong
Huailu Li
Haibo Xu

Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
w26367 Maria Polyakova
Stephen P. Ryan

Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
w26339 Martín Caruso
Sebastian Galiani
Federico Weinschelbaum

Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality: Evidence for Latin America
w26325 Michael Baker
Kirsten Cornelson

The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
w26238 Andrew Goodman-Bacon
Jamein P. Cunningham

Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services
w26232 William N. Evans
David C. Philips
Krista J. Ruffini

Reducing and Preventing Homelessness: A Review of the Evidence and Charting a Research Agenda
w26211 Martin Ravallion
On Measuring Global Poverty
w26205 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Tong Liu
Yingquan Song
Qu Tang
Peng Zhang

The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital in China
w26199 José Andrée Camarena
Luciana Galeano
Luis Morano
Jorge Puig
Daniel Riera-Crichton
Carlos Vegh
Lucila Venturi
Guillermo Vuletin

Fooled by the Cycle: Permanent versus Cyclical Improvements in Social Indicators
w26174 Douglas L. Miller
Na’ama Shenhav
Michel Z. Grosz

Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start
w26139 John Eric Humphries
Nicholas S. Mader
Daniel I. Tannenbaum
Winnie L. van Dijk

Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL
w26118 Faical Akaichi
Joan Costa-Font
Richard Frank

Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
w26028 Robert A. Moffitt
Matthew V. Zahn

The Marginal Labor Supply Disincentives of Welfare: Evidence from Administrative Barriers to Participation
w26025 Dean Jolliffe
Juan Margitic
Martin Ravallion

Food Stamps and America's Poorest
w25973 Sanders Korenman
Dahlia K. Remler
Rosemary T. Hyson

Accounting for the Impact of Medicaid on Child Poverty
w25962 Andrew Goodman-Bacon
Lucie Schmidt

Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net
w25953 Justine S. Hastings
Ryan E. Kessler
Jesse M. Shapiro

The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications
w25947 Debopam Bhattacharya
Pascaline Dupas
Shin Kanaya

Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions
w25929 Orazio Attanasio
Matthew Bird
Lina Cardona-Sosa
Pablo Lavado

Freeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
w25907 Bruce D. Meyer
Derek Wu
Victoria R. Mooers
Carla Medalia

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States
w25902 Petra Persson
Maya Rossin-Slater

When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
w25896 Lars J. Lefgren
Jaren C. Pope
David P. Sims

Contemporary State Policies and Intergenerational Income Mobility
w25854 Jon Kleinberg
Sendhil Mullainathan

Simplicity Creates Inequity: Implications for Fairness, Stereotypes, and Interpretability
w25846 Shari Eli
Trevon D. Logan
Boriana Miloucheva

Physician Bias and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence from Veterans' Pensions
w25787 William H. Dow
Anna Godøy
Christopher A. Lowenstein
Michael Reich

Can Economic Policies Reduce Deaths of Despair?
w25758 Theodore J. Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Jason Ward

The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on Minor Abortion
w25738 Bruce D. Meyer
Nikolas Mittag

Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
w25737 Bruce D. Meyer
Nikolas Mittag

An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
w25687 Martin Ravallion
Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
w25642 Manasi Deshpande
Tal Gross
Yalun Su

Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
w25640 Martin Ravallion
Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
w25635 Timothy K.M. Beatty
Marianne P. Bitler
Xinzhe Huang Cheng
Cynthia van der Werf

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Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project
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The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor
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Child Support: Interaction Between Private and Public Transfers
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The Earned Income Tax Credit
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Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor
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Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development
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Mark Schweitzer
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The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution
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The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
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Dan T. Rosenbaum

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
1999
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
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Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
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Charles Michalopoulos

Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits
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Jane Waldfogel

Work, Welfare, and Child Maltreatment
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Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Re-Examination of the Illegitimacy Debate
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The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle
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Inequality, Growth, and Investment
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Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
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Distributional Impacts of Proposed Changes to the Social Security System
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Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem
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Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor
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Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor
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Volatility and the Welfare Costs of Financial Market Integration
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Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis
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Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance
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Less-Skilled Workers, Welfare Reform, and the Unemployment Insurance System
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Inquiries in the Economics of Aging
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School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start
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Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s
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The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers
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Advances in the Economics of Aging
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Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly
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Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve
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A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve
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Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit
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Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
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Does Head Start Make a Difference?
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Richard B. Freeman

Evaluating the Connection Between Social Protection and Economic Flexib ility
1992
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Lawrence F. Katz

Rising Inequality? Changes in the Distribution of Income and Consumption in the 1980s
1991
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Martin Eichenbaum

Identification and the Liquidity Effect of a Monetary Policy Shock
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