Work incentives and the Food Stamp Program
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☆ We are grateful to Bob Schoeni and Donna Nordqui Barreca and Rachel Henry Currans-Sheehan provided Schanzenbach thanks the Joint Center for Poverty Re and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development and the Population Research Center at the University of support. ⁎ Corresponding author at: School of Education and So versity, IL, United States. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.W. Ho (D.W. Schanzenbach). 1 For example, innovating papers that use structural m get constraints include Burtless and Hausman (1978) a tax, Hausman (1980) on the federal income tax, and M
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