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Using financial incentives to encourage welfare recipients to become economically self-sufficient

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  • Philip K. Robins

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  • Charles Michalopoulos & Philip K. Robins, 2001. "Using financial incentives to encourage welfare recipients to become economically self-sufficient," Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, issue Sep, pages 105-123.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fednep:y:2001:i:sep:p:105-123:n:v.7no.2
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    1. David H. Greenberg & David Long & Daniel Meyer & Charles Michalopoulos & Philip K. Robins, 1995. "Using Microsimulation To Help Design Pilot Demonstrations," Evaluation Review, , vol. 19(6), pages 687-706, December.
    2. Moffitt, Robert, 1983. "An Economic Model of Welfare Stigma," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 73(5), pages 1023-1035, December.
    3. David Card & Philip K. Robins, 1996. "Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project," NBER Working Papers 5701, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Rebecca M. Blank & David Card & Philip K. Robins, 1999. "Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low- Income Families," HEW 9902002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Sheldon Danziger, 2000. "Approaching the Limit: Early Lessons from Welfare Reform," JCPR Working Papers 195, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    6. David Card & Philip K. Robins & Winston Lin, 1998. "Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the SSP," NBER Working Papers 6449, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Michael C. Keeley & Philip K. Robins & Robert G. Spiegelman & Richard W. West, 1978. "The Labor-Supply Effects and Costs of Alternative Negative Income Tax Programs," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 13(1), pages 3-36.
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