Replication data for: Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Patrick Kline; Melissa Tartari
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We study the short-term impact of Connecticut's Jobs First welfare
reform experiment on women's labor supply and welfare participation
decisions. A nonparametric optimizing model is shown to restrict
the set of counterfactual choices compatible with each woman's
actual choice. These revealed preference restrictions yield informative
bounds on the frequency of several intensive and extensive margin
responses to the experiment. We find that welfare reform induced
many women to work but led some others to reduce their earnings in
order to receive assistance. The bounds on this latter \"opt-in\" effect
imply that intensive margin labor supply responses are nontrivial.
(JEL H23, H75, I38, J16, J22)
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J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
I38 Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
H75 State and Local Government: Health • Education • Welfare • Public Pensions
J16 Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
H23 Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
I38 Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
H75 State and Local Government: Health • Education • Welfare • Public Pensions
J16 Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
H23 Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
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