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Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach / Patrick Kline, Melissa Tartari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kline, Patrick.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20838.
- NBER working paper series no. w20838
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We study the short-term impact of Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment on women's labor supply and welfare participation decisions. A non-parametric 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 non-trivial.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2015.
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