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050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aLemieux, Thomas.
245 10 $aIncentive effects of social assistance$h[electronic resource] :$bA regression discontinuity approach /$cThomas Lemieux, Kevin Milligan.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2004.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 10541
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 1/24/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"We examine the incentive effects of transfer programs using a unique policy episode. Prior to 1989, social assistance recipients without children in Quebec who were under age 30 received benefits 60 percent lower than recipients older than 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes and on living arrangements using a regression discontinuity approach. We find strong evidence that more generous social assistance benefits reduce employment, and more suggestive evidence that they affect marital status and living arrangements. The regression discontinuity estimates exhibit little sensitivity to the degree of flexibility in the specification, and perform very well when we control for unobserved heterogeneity using a first difference specification. Finally, we show that commonly used difference-in-difference estimators may perform poorly when control groups are inappropriately chosen"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
650 0 $aTransfer payments$zQuébec (Province)
650 0 $aPublic welfare$zQuébec (Province)
700 1 $aMilligan, Kevin.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 10541.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w10541