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Does means-testing welfare discourage saving? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Women
Powers, Elizabeth T. (1995)
An empirical test of AFDC's asset limit, finding that after correcting for the potential endogeneity of policy, a $1 difference in limits implies a difference in potential AFDC recipients' wealth of 30 cents. ; This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier to examine the scale economies, cost efficiencies, and technological change of three payments instruments--check, automated clearinghouse (ACH) transfers, and Fedwire processing--provided by the Federal Reserve over the period 1990-94.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9519

Journal Article
Labor market effects of welfare reform
Daly, Mary C. (1997)
FRBSF Economic Letter

Discussion Paper
The social discount rate
Caplin, Andrew; Leahy, John V. (2001)
In welfare theory it is standard to pick the consumption stream that maximizes the welfare of the representative agent. We argue against this position, and show that a benevolent social planner will generally place a greater weight on future consumption than does the representative agent.
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 137

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Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population
Reimers, Cordelia; Chernick, Howard (2001)
Economic Policy Review , Issue Sep , Pages 83-97

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On the political economy of income redistribution and crime
Merlo, Antonio; Imrohoroglu, Ayse; Rupert, Peter (1996)
We study a one-sector growth model which is standard except for the presence of an externality in the production function. The set of competitive equilibria is large. It includes constant equilibria, sunspot equilibria, cyclical and chaotic equilibria, and equilibria with deterministic or stochastic regime switching. The efficient allocation is characterized by constant employment and a constant growth rate. We identify an income tax-subsidy schedule that supports the efficient allocation as the unique equilibrium outcome. That schedule has two properties: (i) it specifies the tax rate to be ...
Staff Report , Paper 216

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Production interdependence and welfare
Huang, Kevin X. D.; Liu, Zheng (2004)
The international welfare effects of a country?s monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects terms of trade in favor of one country against another depending on the currencies of price setting. We show that the increased world production interdependence magnifies the efficiency-improvement effect while dampening the terms-of-trade effect. As a consequence, a unilateral monetary expansion can be mutually beneficial and thus Pareto improving regardless of in which currency ...
Research Working Paper , Paper RWP 04-04

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The impact of welfare reform on marriage and divorce
Bitler, Marianne; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Zavodny, Madeline (2002)
The goal of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was to end the dependency of needy parents on government benefits, in part by promoting marriage; the pre-reform welfare system was widely believed to discourage marriage because it primarily provided benefits to single mothers. However, welfare reform may have actually decreased the incentives to be married by giving women greater financial independence via the program's new emphasis on work. This paper uses Vital Statistics data on marriages and divorces during 1989-2000 to examine the role of ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2002-9

Discussion Paper
The Supplemental Security Income Program and welfare reform
Schmidt, Lucie (2012)
Over the past 20 years, the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI), which provides federally funded income support for disabled individuals, has become one of the most important means-tested cash aid programs in the United States. However, little research has examined the determinants of growth in SSI caseloads across states and over time. In this paper I use state panel data, exploiting variation both across states and over time, to determine what factors determine SSI disabled caseloads. I examine the relative importance of a number of factors, including economic conditions, health ...
Public Policy Discussion Paper , Paper 12-3

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Welfare effects of tax policy in open economies: stabilization and cooperation
Kim, Jinill; Kim, Sunghyun Henry (2003)
This paper studies an international tax policy design problem by employing a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with incomplete asset markets. We investigate the possibility of welfare improving active tax policies, in particular capital and labor income tax, under the non-cooperative Nash equilibrium and the cooperative equilibrium. Unlike the conventional wisdom regarding stabilization policies, optimal tax policies in our economy are procyclical. Relative to the non-cooperative setting, international tax policy cooperation requires more active tax policies (about two times) and ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2003-51

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Welfare implications of the transition to high household debt
Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Hercowitz, Zvi (2006)
Aggressive deregulation of the mortgage market in the early 1980s triggered innovations that greatly reduced the required home equity of U.S. households. This allowed households to cash-out a large part of accumulated equity, which equaled 71 percent of GDP in 1982. A borrowing surge followed: Household debt increased from 43 to 62 percent of GDP in the 1982- 2000 period. What are the welfare implications of such a reform for borrowers and savers? This paper uses a calibrated general equilibrium model of lending from the wealthy to the middle class to evaluate these effects quantitatively.
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-06-27

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