Does welfare play any role in female headship decisions?
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The US welfare system does not encourage the existence of female-headed households for either whites or blacks. The study investigates how individual and state effects influence assessments of the effect of welfare benefits on decisions female-headed households. However, welfare program generosity is related to how the composition of population varies across states. Results of the study also show that an overstatement of the effect of welfare programs to family structure may have been made by earlier investigations.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1997
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National origin and immigrant welfare recipiency
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An economic immigration model is developed and analyzed. The model focuses on the impact of national origin differences on welfare recipiency of immigrants to the US. It is shown that some source country characteristics define variances in welfare recipiency rates for various national origin groups. In addition, changes in these characteristics for foreign-born populations between 1970 and 1980 explain the increase in welfare for the period.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1993
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Generalized Samuelson conditions and welfare theorems for nonsmooth economies
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Efficiency conditions are given for economies with a finite number of private and public commodities, without assuming differentiability and without requiring that such commodities be goods. First and second welfare theorems are shown as corollaries of the efficiency conditions discussed.
Publication Name: The Journal of Public Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0047-2727
Year: 1996
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