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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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