Since their inception in the 1930s, U.S. welfare and income support programs have played an important role in providing benefits to children. Unlike programs directly targeted to children, however, welfare programs are designed to produce economic and employment impacts on adults, so that any effects on children would be indirect. This article explores the influence of such programs on children...

This paper investigates the world economic implications of climate change policy strategies, especially the evaluation of impacts by an implementation of Clean Development Mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions trading with a world integrated assessment model. Of special interest in this context are the welfare spill over and competitiveness effects that result from diverse climate poli...

This paper investigates the world economic implications of climate change policy strategies, especially the evaluation of impacts by an implementation of Clean Development Mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions trading with a world integrated assessment model. Of special interest in this context are the welfare spill over and competitiveness effects that result from diverse climate poli...

BACKGROUND Lone parents and their children experience higher than average levels of adverse health and social outcomes, much of which are explained by high rates of poverty. Many high income countries have attempted to address high poverty rates by introducing employment requirements for lone parents in receipt of welfare benefits. However, there is evidence that employment may not reduce pover...

There is much debate, but surprisingly little evidence, concerning the impact of primarily supply side Welfare to Work programmes in labour markets characterised by weak labour demand. The usual argument is that we might expect Welfare to Work measures to have greater impacts in tight labour markets than in slack ones because more (and perhaps better) job vacancies exist. On the other hand, the...

Title of dissertation: Essays on Economic Spillovers, Labor Markets, and Economic Development Ben Zou Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Judith K. Hellerstein Professor Sebastian Galiani Department of Economics Location-based policies are widely used across the world in the hope of stimulating particular local economies. This dissertation consists of three chapters o...

This paper investigates the world economic implications of climate change policy strategies, and particularly evaluates the impacts of an implementation of clean development mechanisms (CDM), joint implementation (JI) and emissions trading with a world integrated assessment model. Of special interest in this context are welfare spill over and competitiveness effects resulting from diverse clima...

Gutenberg’s printing press was the great revolution in Renaissance information technology. Economists have struggled to identify its impact in data on productivity, output, or wages. This paper documents the welfare impact of the technology by exploiting data on the price and consumption of books in England between the late 1400s and 1700. I find that the welfare impact of the printed book was ...

iran achieved its self-sufficiency goal in wheat production a few years ago. some opponents argue that the increased wheat production has happened at the expense of decreasing other grains specially barley. considering the dependency of wheat and barley markets on each other, the study estimates policy preference functions for each market, separately. using weights according to the political in...