The Entitlement Society
Posted: September 1, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Entitlement Society
Exposing the Food Stamp Stimulus Fallacy
Posted: July 13, 2012 Filed under: Multiplier, Stimulus, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Exposing the Food Stamp Stimulus Fallacy
The welfare state alienates people [VIDEO]
Posted: May 6, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/06/aei-president-the-welfare-state-alienates-people-video/
iowahawk: Julia’s Circle of Life
Posted: May 5, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2012/05/julias-circle-of-life.html
Who the hell is “Julia,” and why am I paying for her whole life?
Posted: May 3, 2012 Filed under: Welfare Leave a comment »http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51265
Hypocrisy About Government Programs? Not So Much
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Hypocrisy About Government Programs? Not So Much
New York Times article on “We are all dependent on entitlements now.”
The Expanding Social Safety Net
Posted: December 12, 2011 Filed under: Unemployment, Welfare Leave a comment »http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17654#fromrss
Food Stamps
Posted: November 22, 2011 Filed under: Welfare Leave a comment »http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2011/11/food-stamps.html
Is the Government an Efficient Charity?
Posted: November 10, 2011 Filed under: Charity, Welfare Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/is_the_governme.html
Four in Ten Children are Born on Medicaid
Posted: October 11, 2011 Filed under: Medicaid, Welfare Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/four-in-ten-children-are-born-on-medicaid/
You can lead kids to lunch, but you can’t make them eat healthy
Posted: September 8, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
You can lead kids to lunch, but you can’t make them eat healthy
If we are to survive the looming catastrophe, we need to face the truth
Posted: August 10, 2011 Filed under: Debt Ceiling, Deficit Spending, Welfare Leave a comment »Caught in the trap? Welfare’s disincentive and the labor supply of single men
Posted: August 5, 2011 Filed under: Welfare Leave a comment »http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727271100079X
Posted: July 14, 2011 Filed under: Poverty, Welfare Leave a comment »
How Poverty Lost Its Meaning: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n2-5.html
The Unheavenly City (“Culture of Poverty”): http://www.amazon.com/Unheavenly-City-Nature-Future-Crisis/dp/B001CF2NWU/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp
Does Welfare Help the Poor?: http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/faculty%20pages/Tyler/welfare.pdf
The Long-Run versus the Short
Posted: July 13, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Long-Run versus the Short
Vote Buying–It Works!
Posted: July 5, 2011 Filed under: Democracy, Welfare Leave a comment »http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/2011_07.php#007726
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
Posted: May 16, 2011 Filed under: Medicare, Welfare Leave a comment »http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17042
Callous Reflections, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: March 12, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/callous_reflect.html
What Would Mencken Do?
Posted: March 6, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
What Would Mencken Do?
Does it Still Pay to Work?
Posted: February 10, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Does it Still Pay to Work?
Welfare State
Posted: February 9, 2011 Filed under: Welfare Leave a comment »http://ewot.typepad.com/the_economic_way_of_think/2011/02/while-i-was-recruiting.html
New at Reason: Greg Beato on the Politics of Food Stamps
Posted: December 10, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
New at Reason: Greg Beato on the Politics of Food Stamps
Why Work?
Posted: December 1, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Why Work?
If Government Were a Rich Man, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: November 2, 2010 Filed under: Government, Poverty, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/11/if_government_w.html
K ALDOR-HICKS EFFICIENCY AND THE PROBLEM OF CENTRAL PLANNING
Posted: August 20, 2010 Filed under: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Welfare Leave a comment »http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae4_2_3.pdf
The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies — by Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin
Posted: August 9, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies — by Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group, little is known about the impact of subsidy receipt on child well-being. In this paper, we identify the causal effect of child care subsidies on child development by exploiting geographic variation in the distance that families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest social service agency that administers the subsidy application process. Using data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, our instrumental variables estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive ability and reveal more behavior problems throughout kindergarten. However, these negative effects largely disappear by the time children reach the end of third grade. Our results point to an unintended consequence of a child care subsidy regime that conditions eligibility on parental employment and deemphasizes child care quality.
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Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program — by Hilary Williamson Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Posted: July 19, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unemployment Benefits, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program — by Hilary Williamson Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Labor supply theory makes strong predictions about how the introduction of a social welfare program impacts work effort. Although there is a large literature on the work incentive effects of AFDC and the EITC, relatively little is known about the work incentive effects of the Food Stamp Program and none of the existing literature is based on quasi-experimental methods. We use the cross-county introduction of the program in the 1960s and 1970s to estimate the impact of the program on the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply, earnings, and family cash income. Consistent with theory, we find modest reductions in employment and hours worked when food stamps are introduced. The results are larger for single-parent families.
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Feds: Fatty Meat Is Bad for You. Now Shut Up and Eat Your Government-Provided Fatty Meat.
Posted: June 16, 2010 Filed under: Health, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Feds: Fatty Meat Is Bad for You. Now Shut Up and Eat Your Government-Provided Fatty Meat.
A great catch by Cato’s Sallie James, who
notes these two news items from yesterday:
1) Don’t eat fatty meat,
say new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed
guidelines:
[The report's] findings: People should consume more
vegetables and whole grains, and less fatty meats,
salt and sugar…The guidelines in turn will form the basis of the
USDA’s updated food pyramid, scheduled to be released in spring
2011. They also determine the nutrition standards for all federal
nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program,
which feeds more than 30 million children a day.[emphasisJames']
2) We will now use your taxpayer dollars to buy
fatty meat, and then hand it off to the poorest, youngest, most
obese segments of the population:
The U.S. Agriculture Department plans to buy as much as
$14 million worth of dark meat chicken products to help producers
facing a glut in stocks and decreasing prices, Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday…The government purchase… will
be used by food banks, school lunch programs, and other food
assistance programs.
As James notes, it’s even the same agency in both cases.
Hey look, we made a
video about this!:
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Poor People and Expenditures
Posted: May 25, 2010 Filed under: Foreign Aid, Poverty, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://aidwatchers.com/2010/05/poor-people-behaving-badly/
http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/530
