Behavioral responses and welfare reform: Evidence from a randomized experiment
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Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
July 2017 IZA DP No. 10905 Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment* Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioralinduced participation. Using data on Connecticut’s Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of behavioral-i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Labour Economics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0927-5371
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2018.08.002