Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs: Introduction / Robert Moffitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moffitt, Robert.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21751.

NBER working paper series no. w21751

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.

Summary:

This volume collects a series of essays by prominent economists on each of the major means-tested, or welfare, programs in the United States: the Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credit, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, Subsidized Housing, Training, and Early Education programs. Each essay covers the institutional history of a program, the policy issues surrounding it, its rules and regulations, its history of expenditure and caseloads, and, most importantly, a summary of the research that economists have conducted on the program and the findings from that research. The volume is an update of a popular first volume in 2003 which became a reference Handbook on the shelf of all economists and policy-makers who work on, or who are interested in, transfer programs in the United States. The new volume focuses primarily on the changes in programs which have occurred since 2003 and the results of new research since that date. The volume will be a timely contribution to on-going policy discussions in Washington and elsewhere, bringing the available evidence to bear on the many issues surrounding those programs.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2015.