Does means-testing welfare discourage saving? evidence from a change in AFDC policy in the United States

Article Abstract:

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of asset testing requirements for welfare recipients reveals that asset testing can discourage saving among female-headed household groups. The study finds that an increase of $1 on the asset limit results in increased savings of 25 cents for the group suggesting responses to changes in increased opportunities to save and that the findings are reasonably robust to a number of sample restrictions. The study suggests caution when applying asset tests to welfare recipient testing.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Social Security, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Usage, Evaluation, Testing, Social policy, Welfare recipients, Assets (Accounting)

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Evaluating effective income tax progression

Article Abstract:

Research efforts led to the development of an algorithm that can calculate effective tax progression profiles using information in concentration and relative concentration curves for taxes and post-tax incomes. The algorithm is intended for cases when taxes are a function of money income and the data is in summary form. The algorithm showed that undue information compression consists of a scalar progressivity index resulting from a collapse of concentration data.

Analysis, Economic aspects, Income tax, Welfare economics

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