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ECOE 70701, Graduate Public Economics I

 

 

Welfare Programs

 

Ziliak, James (2016), “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,” in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, volume 1, Robert Moffitt, Editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan (2004): “The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s,” Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, 1387-1420. 

 

Moffitt, Robert (2003) “The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, “ in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, edited by Robert A. Moffitt, University of Chicago Press.

 

Bitler, Marriane, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes.  2006. “What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments,” American Economic Review Volume 96, Number 4, pp. 988-1012, September.

 

Bitler, Mariane P., Jonah B. Gelbach, and Hilary Hoynes 2005. “Welfare Reform and Health.” Journal of Human Resources 40(2):309-334.

 

DeLeire, T., J.A. Levine, and Helen Levy. “Is welfare reform responsible for low-skilled women's declining health insurance coverage in the 1990s?” Journal of Human Resource, 41 (3): 495-528. 2006.

 

Hoynes, Hilary (1997):  “Does Welfare Play any Role in Female Headship Decisions?” Journal of Public Economics, 65, 89-118.

 

Gruber, Jonathan (2000): “Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Divorced Mothers” Journal of Public Economics 75(2), February 2000, pages 157-82.

 

Grogger, Jeffrey and Charles Michalopoulos.  2003. “Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits.” Journal of Political Economy 111(3), 530-554.

 

Grogger, Jeffrey.  2004.  “Time Limits and Welfare Use.” Journal of Human Resources 39 (2), Spring, 405-424.

 

 

Food and Nutrition Programs

 

Hoynes, Hilary and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (2016), “U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs,” in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, volume 1, Robert Moffitt, Editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Currie, Janet 2003.  “U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs.” In: Robert Moffitt, Editor, Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2003).

 

Hoynes, Hilary W., and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. 2009. “Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4): 109–39.

 

Almond, Doug, Hilary Hoynes, and Diane Schanzenbach. 2011.  “Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of the Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes, Review of Economics and Statistics, May, 93(2): 387–403.

 

Shapiro, Jesse. 2005.   Is there a daily discount rate? Evidence from the food stamp nutrition cycle.”  Journal of Public Economics, February.

 

 

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

 

Duggan, M. and Melissa Kearney, and Stephanie Rennane (2016), “The Supplemental Security Income Program,” in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, volume 2, Robert Moffitt, Editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Housing Programs

 

Collinson, Robert, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig (2016), “Low-Income Housing Policy,” in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, volume 2, Robert Moffitt, Editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Olsen, Edgar O. 2003.  Housing programs for low-income households. In: Robert Moffitt, Editor, Means-tested transfer programs in the United States, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2003).

 

Jacob, Brian, 2004.  “Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions,” American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 1 (March), pp. 233-258.

 

Jacob, Brian A., and Jens Ludwig. 2012. “The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery.” American Economic Review, 102(1): 272–304.

 

Kling, Jeffrey R., Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Lawrence F. Katz, “Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects,” Econometrica 75 (January 2007), 83-119.

 

Evans, Sullivan, Wallskog (2016), “The Impact of Homelessness Prevention Programs on Homelessness,” Science, 353(6300), 694-699.

 

Currie and Yelowitz, 2000 Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz, Are public housing projects good for kids? Journal of Public Economics 75 (2000), pp. 99–124.

 

Sinai, Todd and Joel Waldfogel.  2005.  “Do low-income housing subsidies increase the occupied housing stock?” Journal of Public Economics, 89(11-12), December, 2137-2164.

 

 

The Earned Income Tax Credit

 

Nichols, Austin and Jesse Rothstein (2016), “The Earned Income Tax Credit,” in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, volume 1, Robert Moffitt, Editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

 

Hotz, V. Joseph, and John Karl Scholz (2003): “The Earned Income Tax Credit, “ in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, edited by Robert A. Moffitt, University of Chicago Press.

 

Dahl, Gordon B., and Lance Lochner. 2012. “The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit.” American Economic Review, 102(5): 1927–56.

 

Chetty, Raj, John Friedman and Emmanuel Saez. 2013. “Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings.” American Economic Review, 103(7): 2683-2721.

 

Chetty, Raj and Emmanuel Saez, 2011. “Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1): 1-31.

 

Eissa, Nada and Hilary Hoynes (2000): “Tax and Transfer Policy, and Family Formation: Marriage and Cohabitation” Working Paper, University of California at Davis.  

 

Ellwood, D. (2000): “The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Other Social Policy Changes on Work and Marriage in the United States,” National Tax Journal 53, 1063-1106.

 

Kopczuk, Wojciech and Cristian Pop-Eleches (2007):  “Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Journal of Public Economics, 91, 1351–1367.

 

 

Higher Education Subsidies and Promoting Post-Secondary Education

 

 

Congressional Budget Office. 2013. “The Federal Pell Grant Program: Recent Growth and Policy Options.”

 

Deming DJ, Dynarski S. “Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor.” In Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited University of Chicago Press; 2010.

 

Angrist, Joshua , David Autor, Sally Hudson, and Amanda Pallais, 2014, “Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid,” NBER Working Paper No. 20800, December.

 

 

Unemployment Insurance

 

Gruber, Jonathan (1997):  “The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance,” American Economic Review, 87, 192-205.

 

Schmieder, Johannes F., Till von Wachter, and Stefan Bender.   2011. “The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (2): 701-752.

 

Landais, Camille (2014). “Assessing the welfare effects of unemployment insurance using the regression kink design,” forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

 

 

Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance

 

Card, David and Brian P. McCall (1996):  “Is Workers' Compensation Covering Uninsured Medical Costs?  Evidence from the 'Monday Effect',” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 49, 690-706.

 

Meyer, Bruce D., W. Kip Viscusi and David Durbin (1995):  “Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” American Economic Review 85, 322-340.

 

Bronchetti, Erin Todd. 2012. “Workers’ Compensation and Consumption Smoothing.” Journal of Public Economics, 96(5–6), 495–508.

 

Acemoglu, D., and J. Angrist. 2001. “Consequences of Employment Protection: The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Journal of Political Economy. 109(5).

 

Gruber, Jonathan (1994), “The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits,” American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Jun., 1994), pp. 622-641.

 

Summers, Larry “Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits”, American Economic Review, 79(2), May 1989, 177-183.

 

Autor, David H and Mark G. Duggan (2003): “The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), February, 157-206.

 

Black, Dan A, K. Daniel and S. Sanders (2002): “The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust,” American Economic Review, 92, 27-50. 

 

 

Social Security, Retirement and Saving

 

Banks, James, Richard Blundell and Sarah Tanner (1998): “Is There a Retirement-Savings Puzzle?” American Economic Review, 88, 769-788.

 

Aquiar, Mark and Erik Hurst (2005): “Consumption vs. Expenditure” Journal of Political Economy, 113, 919-948.

 

Aguiar, Mark and Erik Hurst.  2007.  “Lifecycle Prices and Production,  American Economic Review, December 2007, 97(5), 1533-59.

 

Stephens, Mel and Desmond Toohey. 2018.  “Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement,” Working Paper.

 

Bernheim, B. Douglas, Jonathan Skinner and Steven Weinberg (2001): “What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?” American Economic Review 91, 832-857.

 

Hubbard, R. Glenn and Kenneth L. Judd (1987): “Social Security and Individual Welfare: Precautionary Saving, Borrowing Constraints, and the Payroll Tax,” American Economic Review, (September), 630-646.

 

Duflo, Esther, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, and Emmanuel Saez (2005).  “Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families:  Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 121(4), 1311-1346.

 

Engen, E.  W. Gale, and J. Scholz, “The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (Fall 1996), 113-138.

 

Madrian, B. and D. Shea, “The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 116(4), 1149-1188.

 

Chetty, Raj, John Friedman, Soren Leth-Petersen, Torben Nielsen, and Tore Olsen (2014). “Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(3): 1141-1219.

 

 

Health Insurance

 

Card, David, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas (2008).  “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare,” American Economic Review, 98:5, 2242–2258.

 

Currie, Janet, and Jonathan Gruber, “Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Changes in the Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women,” Journal of Political Economy, (1996) vol. 104:6, pp. 1263-1296.

 

Cutler, David M. and Jonathan Gruber, “Does Public Insurance Crowd our Private Insurance?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 112(2): 391-430.

 

Finkelstein, Amy, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, and The Oregon Health Study Group.  (2012).  The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year.”  Quarterly Journal of Economics.

 

Finkelstein, Amy, Nathaniel Hendren, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer, "The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment," Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming.

 

Yelowitz, Aaron, “The Medicaid Notch, Labor Supply, and Welfare Participation: Evidence from Eligibility Expansions,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1995, pp 909-939.

 

J. Doyle, “Health Insurance, Treatment, and Outcomes: Using Automobile Accidents as Health Shocks,” Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2005, 87(2): 256-270.

 

Kowalski, Amanda and Jonathan T. Kolstad (2012).  “Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform” NBER Working Paper 17933. Latest Version: April 2012.

 

Kowalski, Amanda, (2009), “Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care” NBER Working Paper 15085.

 

 

Well-Being, Inequality, and Poverty

 

Aguiar, Mark and Erik Hurst.  2007.  Measuring Trends in Leisure:  The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades. Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, Vol. 122, No. 3, Pages 969-1006.

 

Krueger, Dirk and Fabrizio Perri. 2006.  “Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory,” Review of Economic Studies, 73(1), 163-193.

 

Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan (2012): “Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26: 111-136.

 

Meyer, Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan (2012): “Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2012, 133-200.

 

 

 

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