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Incentive effects of the US welfare system: A review

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R Moffitt - Journal of Economic Literature, 1992 - JSTOR
THE US WELFARE SYSTEM has been considered by many observers to be in a state of
crisis since the late 1960s. Over the past two decades the welfare system has experienced
an expansion unprecedented by historical standards and whose results are still being felt ...
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The uses of Tobit analysis

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JF McDonald… - The review of economics and statistics, 1980 - JSTOR
Page 1. 318 THE REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS THE USES OF TOBIT
ANALYSIS John F. McDonald and Robert A. Moffitt* As econometric models with
truncated or censored error terms come into increasing, almost ...
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An economic model of welfare stigma

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R Moffitt - The American Economic Review, 1983 - JSTOR
Perhaps the most basic assumption of the economic theory of consumer demand is that"
more is better than less." Virtually all of the major propositions of consumer theory can, in a
certain sense, be derived from the assumption that" goods are good." Interestingly, ...
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An analysis of sample attrition in panel data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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J Fitzgerald, P Gottschalk… - 1998 - nber.org
By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced
approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968
membership. We study the effect of this attrition on the unconditional distributions of ...
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The growth of earnings instability in the US labor market

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P Gottschalk, R Moffitt, LF Katz… - Brookings Papers on …, 1994 - JSTOR
THE WIDENING EARNINGS distribution in the US labor market over the 1970s and 1980s
has been one of the most remarkable shifts in the structure of labor compensation in recent
history-the last major shift in this distribution having occurred during the 1940s. I In the ...
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A computationally efficient quadrature procedure for the one-factor multinomial probit model

JS Butler… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1982 - JSTOR
Aproblem OF ESTIMATION that has long confronted many economists is the difficulty of
estimating the parameters of equations with limited dependent variables on cross-section
time-series (ie, panel) data. While there are widely available packaged computer ...
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Policy interventions, low-level equilibria, and social interactions

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RA Moffitt - Social dynamics, 2001 - books.google.com
Page 57. Policy Interventions, Low- Level Equilibria, and Social Interactions Robert
A. Moffitt Interest in social interactions, neighborhood effects, and social dynam-
ics in the last several years has seen a revival. One reason ...
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A structural model of multiple welfare program participation and labor supply

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M Keane… - International economic review, 1998 - JSTOR
Work on estimating the labor supply effects of high marginal tax rates in welfare programs
has been hindered by the difficulty of estimating the effects of participation in multiple
welfare programs simultaneously. We solve this problem by applying methods of ...
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Unemployment insurance and the distribution of unemployment spells

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R Moffitt - Journal of Econometrics, 1985 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper administrative data from the unemployment-insurance (UI) system are
used to examine the distribution of unemployment spells. Hazard plots of the data reveal a
strong clustering around the benefit exhaustion point. In addition, estimation of the effects ...
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The estimation of wage gains and welfare gains in self-selection models

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A Björklund… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987 - JSTOR
We modify the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and
other activities on wages, by including" heterogeneity of rewards" to the activity--ie,
differences across individuals in the rate of return to the activity. We show that such ...
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Productivity growth and the Phillips curve

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L Ball… - 2001 - nber.org
We present a model in which workers' aspirations for wage increases adjust slowly to shifts
in productivity growth. The model yields a Phillips curve with a new variable: the gap
between productivity growth and an average of past wage growth. Empirically, this ...
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The effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment: the case of federal supplemental benefits

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R Moffitt… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982 - JSTOR
N recent years there has developed a substan-tial literature on the wcrk disincentive effects
of unemployment insurance (UT) benefits. Specifically, several studies have reported a
significant positive correlation between the length of an individual's unemployment spell ...
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Trends in the transitory variance of earnings in the United States

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RA Moffitt… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
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The econometrics of piecewise-linear budget constraints: a survey and exposition of the maximum likelihood method

R Moffitt - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1986 - JSTOR
In this article maximum likelihood techniques for estimating consumer demand functions
when budget constraints are piecewise linear are exposited and surveyed. Consumer
demand functions are formally derived under such constraints, and it is shown that the ...
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[CITATION] The effect of social security benefits on the labor supply of the aged

G Burtless, R Moffitt - Retirement …, 1984 - Washington, DC: Brookings …
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The joint choice of retirement age and postretirement hours of work

G Burtless… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1985 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work Gary
Burtless, Brookings Institution Robert A. Moffitt, Brown University In this paper we
develop and estimate the first complete and internally consistent ...
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Identification and estimation of dynamic models with a time series of repeated cross-sections

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R Moffitt - Journal of Econometrics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Repeated cross-sectional data contain information on independent cross-sections
of individual units at two or more points in time. Estimation of dynamic models with such data
is made difficult by the general lack of information on lagged dependent and independent ...
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Mothers' transitions from welfare to work and the well-being of preschoolers and adolescents

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PL Chase-Lansdale, RA Moffitt, BJ Lohman… - Science, 2003 - sciencemag.org
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The effect of food stamps on labor supply: A bivariate selection model

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T Fraker… - Journal of Public Economics, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract Although there is a large literature on the effects of US transfer programs on labor
supply, this is the first such study of the Food Stamp Program. We model the nonlinearity and
nonconvexity of the budget constraint and use maximum-likelihood methods to estimate ...
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Real wages over the business cycle: Estimating the impact of heterogeneity with micro data

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M Keane, R Moffitt… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1988 - JSTOR
One of the oldest questions in macroeconomics concerns the correlation between the
business cycle and the real wage. We provide new evidence on this question by examining
the possible bias that arises when (1) workers have unobserved characteristics that affect ...
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Can families smooth variable earnings?

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S Dynarski, J Gruber, RA Moffitt… - Brookings Papers on …, 1997 - JSTOR
... As Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt have shown, and as we confirm below, earnings
variation has trended upward since the early 1970s. We estimate that over the period
1970-91, earnings variation has grown by a striking 76 percent. ...
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[PDF] The effect of pre-PRWORA waivers on AFDC caseloads and female earnings, income, and labor force behavior

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RA Moffitt - Economic conditions and welfare reform, 1999 - spa.ucla.edu
Page 1. The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income,
and Labor Force Behavior Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University May, 1999 A previous
version of this paper was presented at the ASSA Meetings, New York, January 1999. ...
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The estimation of a joint wage-hours labor supply model

R Moffitt - Journal of Labor Economics, 1984 - JSTOR
In this paper the standard cross-sectional static model of labor supply is modified to make
the wage endogenous, and a joint wage-hours model is estimated. The econometric
technique addresses the non-linearity of the budget constraint by approximating the ...
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Welfare programs and labor supply

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RA Moffitt - Handbook of public economics, 2002 - Elsevier
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Beyond single mothers: Cohabitation and marriage in the AFDC program

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RA Moffitt, R Reville… - Demography, 1998 - Springer
Page 1. BEYOND SINGLE MOTHERS: COHABITATION AND MARRIAGE IN THE AFDC
PROGRAM* ROBERT A. MOFFITT, ROBERTREVILLE, AND ANNE E. WINKLER Weinvestigate
the extent and implications ofcohabitation and marriage among US welfare recipients. ...
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The econometrics of kinked budget constraints

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R Moffitt - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 - JSTOR
In the last several years a branch of applied econometrics has developed which is devoted
to the development of techniques for the estimation of demand and other functions when the
budget constraint is" piecewise-linear," or" kinky"-that is, when the constraint consists of a ...
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The effect of the Medicaid program on welfare participation and labor supply

R Moffitt… - 1990 - nber.org
ABSTRACT Although there is a large literature on the effect of AFDC and Food Stamps on
labor supply and welfare participation, there has been little work. on the effects of Medicaid,
despite its importance in the US transfer system. In this paper we use 1986 data from the ...
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Taxation and the labor supply: Decisions of the affluent

RA Moffitt… - 1998 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TAXATION AND THE LABOR SUPPLY
DECISIONS OF THE AFFLUENT Robert A. Moffitt Mark Wilhelm Working Paper 6621
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6621 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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Profiles of fertility, labour supply and wages of married women: a complete life-cycle model

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R Moffitt - The Review of Economic Studies, 1984 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper is an econometric examination of female fertility and labour-supply
decisions. Based upon utility-maximizing choice, fertility and labour-supply demand
functions are specified and estimated jointly with a wage-accumulation equation. A main ...
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New developments in econometric methods for labor market analysis

RA Moffitt - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
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[CITATION] Trends in the Autocovariance Structure of Earnings in the US, 1969-1987

R Moffitt, P Gottschalk… - 1995 - Johns Hopkins University, …
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Welfare effects on female headship with area effects

R Moffitt - Journal of Human Resources, 1994 - JSTOR
The existing literature on welfare effects on female headship in the United States shows
significant positive correlations in cross-section, possibly increasing over time. However,
when geographic, or area, effects are permitted in the estimation, these correlations either ...
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Changes in job instability and insecurity using monthly survey data

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P Gottschalk… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1999 - JSTOR
This article provides evidence on changes in short-term job instability and insecurity using
the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Monthly measures from this data set are
contrasted with annual measures from the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
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The effects of grants-in-aid on state and local expenditures: The case of AFDC

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RA Moffitt - Journal of Public Economics, 1984 - Elsevier
This paper develops econometric methods to estimate the effect of the piecewise-linear budget
constraints created by grant formulas in which the subsidy rate is.
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An estimate of a sectoral model of labor mobility

B Jovanovic… - 1990 - nber.org
ABSTRACT This paper develops a model of sectoral labor mobility and tests its main
implications. The model nests two distinct hypotheses on the origin of mobility:(a) sectoral
shocks (Lucas and Prescott, 1974) and (b) workeremployer mismatch (Jovanovic, 1979, ...
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Effective tax rates and guarantees in the AFDC program, 1967-1982

T Fraker, R Moffitt… - Journal of Human Resources, 1985 - JSTOR
Estimates of effective tax rates on earned and unearned income and estimates of effective
guarantees in the AFDC program by state are provided for the period 1967-1982. The
results indicate that effective real guarantees fell every year from 1967 to 1981 but ...
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Remarks on the analysis of causal relationships in population research

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R Moffitt - Demography, 2005 - Springer
Abstract The problem of determining cause and effect is one of the oldest in the social
sciences, where laboratory experimentation is generally not possible. This article provides a
perspective on the analysis of causal relationships in population research that draws upon ...
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Estimating the value of an in-kind transfer: The case of food stamps

R Moffitt - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1989 - JSTOR
That in-kind and cash transfers differ in value in general is well known to economists.
However, the magnitude of the value of in-kind transfers has not been well determined in
past work. Here the value of one in-kind transfer, Food Stamps, is examined by evaluating ...
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The negative income tax and the evolution of US welfare policy

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RA Moffitt - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE NEGATIVE INCOME TAX AND
THE EVOLUTION OF US WELFARE POLICY Robert A. Moffitt Working Paper 9751
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9751 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ...
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The effect of the US welfare system on marital status

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R Moffitt - Journal of Public Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract An issue of long-standing importance in the US welfare system has been its lack of
neutrality with respect to family composition, which generally provides payments only to
female-headed families—that is, families with no able-bodied male present. Using data ...
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Welfare dependence: concepts, measures, and trends

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P Gottschalk… - The American Economic Review, 1994 - JSTOR
Page 1. Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends By PETER
GOTTSCHALK AND ROBERT A. MOFFITT * In the past ten years, discussions of the
welfare system and welfare reform have in- creasingly been concerned ...
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Evaluation methods for program entry effects

R Moffitt - Evaluating welfare and training programs, 1992 - books.google.com
Most program interventions are intended to change the characteristics of the recipients on a
program, to change the caseload of the program, or both. In the case of welfare programs,
most of the major interventions of policy interest over the past twenty years, both those that ...
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[BOOK] From welfare to work: What the evidence shows

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R Moffitt - 2002 - econ2.jhu.edu
Executive Summary The great transformation of the welfare system set off by state reforms in
the early 1990s and by the 1996 federal welfare reform law had as its primary focus the
encouragement of work by mothers on welfare. This goal has been achieved to a much ...
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The econometrics of data combination

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G Ridder… - Handbook of Econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
Economists who use survey or administrative data for inferences regarding a population
may want to combine information obtained from two or more samples drawn from the
population. This is the case if there is no single sample that contains all relevant variables. ...
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The Tobit model, hours of work and institutional constraints

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R Moffitt - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1982 - JSTOR
The Tobit model originally set forth by Tobin (1958) is now used routinely to estimate labor-
supply equations with hours of work as the dependent variable, for hours are clustered at
zero for non-workers. The Tobit model presupposes that there is some latent index ...
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[CITATION] The effect of tax and transfer programs on labor supply: The evidence from the income maintenance experiments

R Moffitt… - Research in labor economics, 1981
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Dietary effects of the food stamp program

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B Devaney… - American Journal of Agricultural …, 1991 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Based on data from the 1979–80 Survey of Food Consumption in Low-Income
Households, this paper estimates the effects of changes in cash income and the food stamp
benefit on household nutrient availability, while controlling for two potential sources of ...
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The decline of welfare benefits in the US: the role of wage inequality

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R Moffitt, D Ribar… - Journal of Public Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
Welfare benefits in the US have experienced a much-studied secular decline since the mid-
1970s. We explore a new hypothesis for this decline related to the increase in wage
inequality in the labor market and the decline of real wages at the bottom of the ...
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The effect of employment and training programs on entry and exit from the welfare caseload

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RA Moffitt - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
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Estimating dynamic models of quit behavior: the case of military reenlistment

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T Daula… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
We estimate the effect of financial incentives for reenlistment on military retention rates using
a stochastic dynamic programming model. We show that the computational burden of the
model is relatively low even when estimated on panel data with unobserved heterogeneity ...
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Has state redistribution policy grown more conservative?

RA Moffitt - 1988 - nber.org
... HAS STATE REDISTRIBUTION POLICY GROWN MORE CONSERVATIVE? Robert Moffitt Working
Paper No. 2516 ... merely provide budget relief to the states. Robert Moffitt Department of Economics
Brown University Providence, RI 02912 (401)-863—2779 Page 3. ...
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[PDF] Changing caseloads: Macro influences and micro composition

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RA Moffitt… - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2000 - econ2.jhu.edu
Page 1. CHANGING CASELOADS: MACRO INFLUENCES AND MICRO
COMPOSITION Robert A. Moffitt Johns Hopkins University David Stevens University
of Baltimore December, 2000 Revised, February, 2001 This paper ...
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[PDF] The diversity of welfare leavers

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R Moffitt, J Roff - Policy Brief and Working Paper from the Three- …, 2000 - aspe.hhs.gov
Executive Summary Women who have left TANF in three cities--Boston, Chicago, and San
Antonio--have an average employment rate of 63 percent after leaving welfare, a rate similar
to those found in studies of welfare leavers in many other states. But this average ...
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[CITATION] Life Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security: A Time Series Analysis

RA Moffitt - Work, Health, and Income among the Elderly, Burtless, …, 1987
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The dynamics of job separation: The case of federal employees

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M Black, R Moffitt… - Journal of Applied …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this paper we develop a model of workers' quit decisions. Using panel data on a
sample of US Federal government employees we use maximum-likelihood techniques to
determine how much of the observed decline in quits with job tenure is a result of ...
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Female wages, male wages, and the economic model of marriage: The basic evidence

RA Moffitt - The ties that bind: Perspectives on marriage and …, 2000 - books.google.com
Page 314. 15 Female Wages, Male Wages, and the Economic Model of Marriage:
The Basic Evidence ROBERTA. MOFFITT INTRODUCTION The conventional
economic model of marriage most often associated with the work ...
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[CITATION] The Dynamics of Food Stamp Program participation in the early 1990s

P Gleason, P Schochet, R Moffitt… - 1998 - US Department of Agriculture, Food …
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Health care coverage for children who are on and off welfare

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RA Moffitt… - The Future of Children, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. 87 Health Care Coverage for Children Who Are On and Off Welfare Robert
A. Moffitt Eric P Slade Abstract Access to adequate health insurance is a key concern
of families with children at all income levels. Since 1965 ...
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Work incentives in the AFDC system: an analysis of the 1981 reforms

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R Moffitt - The American Economic Review, 1986 - JSTOR
The road to welfare reform increasingly appears to be one of the rockier paths the United
States has traversed. Indeed, by all outward appearances it is not even clear whether the
current path runs uphill or downhill. As far as work incentives in the welfare system are ...
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[CITATION] The impact of attrition in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on intergenerational analysis

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J Fitzgerald, P Gottschalk… - Journal of …, 1998 - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN …
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The rising instability of US earnings

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P Gottschalk… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The inequality of earnings and of family incomes in the United States has
increased since the late 1970s. The large rise in earnings inequality between the 1970s and
the 1990s could reflect either a rise in disparity of permanent incomes, a rise in earnings ...
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[CITATION] The distribution of earnings and the welfare state

R Moffitt - A Future of Lousy jobs, 1990 - Washington, DC: The Brookings …
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[PDF] Disadvantage among families remaining on welfare

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R Moffitt, A Cherlin, L Burton… - Joint Center for …, 2002 - ipr.northwestern.edu
ABSTRACT An analysis of CPS data and Three-City Study data yields new evidence on the
characteristics of families remaining on welfare after reform. The CPS data show that welfare
reform has led to a slight tendency for more-educated women to disproportionately leave ...
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Cohort trends in the lifetime distribution of female family headship in the United States, 1968–1985

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RA Moffitt… - Demography, 1995 - Springer
Page 1. Demography, Vol. 32, No.3, August 1995 Cohort Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of
Female Family Headship in the United States, 1968-1985* Robert A. Moffitt Department of
Economics and Population Studies and Training Center Brown University ...
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[PDF] Trends in social security wealth by cohort

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RA Moffitt - 1984 - nber.org
... Chapter pages in book: (p. 327 - 358) Page 2. 9 Trends in Social Security Wealth by Cohort Robert
Moffitt ... Robert Moffitt is a professor of economics at Rutgers University. The author would like to
thank Olivia Mitchell, Marilyn Moon, and Joseph Quinn for comments. 327 Page 3. ...
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Welfare benefits and female headship in US time series

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RA Moffitt - The American Economic Review, 2000 - JSTOR
Page 1. POLICY EFFECTS ON FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FERTILITYt Welfare
Benefits and Female Headship in US Time Series By ROBERT A. MOFFITT* Whether
welfare benefits affect marriage and fertility decisions of the ...
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[BOOK] Welfare, the family, and reproductive behavior: research perspectives

R Moffitt - 1998 - books.google.com
The design of welfare programs in an era of reform and devolution to the states must take
into account the likely effects of programs on demographic behavior. Most research on
welfare in the past has examined labor market issues, although there have also been ...
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[BOOK] Welfare reform: The US experience

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R Moffitt… - 2008 - econ2.jhu.edu
The reform of the cash-based welfare program for single mothers in the US which occurred
in the 1990s was the most important since its inception in 1935. The reforms imposed
credible and enforceable work requirements into the program for the first time, as well as ...
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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the US, 1970-2004

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RA Moffitt… - 2011 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRENDS IN THE TRANSITORY
VARIANCE OF MALE EARNINGS IN THE US, 1970-2004 Robert A. Moffitt Peter
Gottschalk Working Paper 16833 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16833 ...
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Identification of causal effects using instrumental variables: Comment

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RA Moffitt - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1996 - JSTOR
Page 1. 462 Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 1996 Models of Labor Force
Dynamics," Journal of Econometrics, 18, 115- 168. Gronau, R. (1974), "Wage Comparisons:
A Selectivity Bias," Journal of Political Economy, 82, 1119-1143. ...
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Optimal life-cycle profiles of fertility and labor supply.

R Moffitt - Research in population economics, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A model of life cycle fertility is developed using the language and framework of optimal
control theory. The chief characteristic of children that distinguishes them from other
consumer durables is, in the language of the optimal growth theory, the" irreversibility of ...
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The labor supply response in the Gary experiment

RA Moffitt - Journal of Human Resources, 1979 - JSTOR
... a Taken from Robert Moffitt and John Friedmann, "Adjusted Mean Responses" in [7]. Net model
includes both during-expe ment observations: L = caTD + 3X + yT, where D is a dummy equal
to 1 if a during-experiment observation, and the X ve equation (1). The lagged model ...
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Introduction

RA Moffitt - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996 - JSTOR
Page 1. The Review of Economics and Statistics VOL. LXXVIII NOVEMBER 1996
NUMBER 4 SYMPOSIUM ON SCHOOL QUALITY AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES:
INTRODUCTION Robert A. Moffitt* Abstract-The Symposium ...
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[BOOK] Trends in income support

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JK Scholz, R Moffitt, B Cowan… - 2008 - econ.wisc.edu
1 In 2008, the OASDI program is financed by a 6.2 percentage point payroll tax levied on
employers and employees (for a combined 12.4 percent tax) on earnings up to $102,000.
These tax receipts are credited to the social security trust fund. To receive benefits, a ...
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[HTML] The effect of the welfare system on nonmarital childbearing

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RA Moffitt - Report to Congress on out-of-wedlock childbearing, 1995 - books.google.com
Page 190. The Effect of the Welfare System on Nonmarital Childbearing Robert A.
Moffitt Johns Hopkins University Introduction The factors that are most often held
accountable for the increase in nonmarital childbearing in the ...
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The role of randomized field trials in social science research

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RA Moffitt - American Behavioral Scientist, 2004 - abs.sagepub.com
Page 1. ARTICLE The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research
A Perspective From Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs ROBERT
A. MOFFITT Johns Hopkins University One of the areas of ...
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[CITATION] Welfare, children, and families: Overview and design

P Winston, RJ Angel, LM Burton… - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins …, 1999
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Welfare benefits and female headship in US time series

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RA Moffitt - Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of …, 2001 - books.google.com
Page 179. CHAPTER 5 Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in US Time Series Robert
A. Moffitt Whether welfare benefits affect the marriage and fertility deci- sions of the
low-income population has been the subject of much research. ...
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[CITATION] The effect of transfer programmes on work effort and human capital formation: Evidence from the US

R Moffitt, A Rangarajan - The …, 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press
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[PDF] The characteristics of families remaining on welfare

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R Moffitt, A Cherlin, L Burton, M King… - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins …, 2002 - jhu.edu
Executive Summary Women remaining on TANF in three cities--Boston, Chicago, and San
Antonio--have average employment rates of 18 percent and poverty rates of 85 percent.
These compare to an employment rate among TANF leavers of about 60 percent and a ...
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State AFDC rules regarding the treatment of cohabitors: 1993

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RA Moffitt, RT Reville… - Soc. Sec. Bull., 1994 - HeinOnline
Page 1. State AFDC Rules Regarding the Treatment of Cohabitors: 1993 by Robert
A. Moffitt, Robert T. Reville, and Anne E. Winkler* This article reports the results of
a survey of State Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...
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Underreporting and experimental effects on work effort: evidence from the Gary income maintenance experiment

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D Greenberg, R Moffitt… - The Review of Economics and …, 1981 - JSTOR
ONE of the central issues in policy debate over alternatives to the nation's welfare system
concerns the effect of these alternative programs on the work effort of transfer payment
recipients, for the size of this effect ultimately determines a transfer program's cost and ...
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The role of nonfinancial factors in exit and entry in the TANF program

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R Moffitt - Journal of Human Resources, 2003 - JSTOR
The dramatic decline in the AFDC-TANF caseload in the 1990s has refocused attention on
the process of exit from and entry into welfare. This paper focuses on the role of nonfinancial
factors in exit and entry in the post-1996 TANF program. The nonfinancial factors are work ...
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Introduction to the Symposium on the Econometrics of Matching

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RA Moffitt - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004 - MIT Press
Page 1. The Review of Economics and Statistics VOL. LXXXVI NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2004
INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE ECONOMETRICS OF MATCHING* Robert A.
Moffitt The papers in this symposium address issues in the econometrics of matching. ...
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A problem with the negative income tax

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R Moffitt - Economics Letters, 1985 - Elsevier
Economics Letters 17 (1985) 261265 261 NorthHolland A PROBLEM WITH THE NEGATIVE
INCOME TAX Robert MOFFITT* Rutgers Uniuersitv, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA Brown
Unieersav, Providence, RI 02912, USA Received 24 April 1984 The goal of a negative ...
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[BOOK] Evaluating welfare reform: a framework and review of current work: interim report

R Moffitt… - 1999 - books.google.com
The United States is in the midst of a major social experiment with its social welfare and
safety net programs for the poor. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, the most fundamental and far-reaching reform of ...
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Causal analysis in population research: An economist's perspective

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R Moffitt - Population and Development Review, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of determining cause and effect is one of the oldest questions in the social
sciences. This note provides a perspective on the analysis of causal relationships in
population research, drawing upon recent discussions in the field of economics. Within ...
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[CITATION] Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the United States: 1969-1987

R Moffitt… - Institute for Research on Poverty …, 1993 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three options: 1. Check below under "Related
research" whether another version of this item is available online. 2. Check on the ...
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[PDF] Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the US

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The system of means-tested transfers in the US has evolved in
important ways over the last decade, with significant expansions of Medic-aid, the Earned
Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Security Income program, and with significant ...
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Explaining welfare reform: Public choice and the labor market

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RA Moffitt - International Tax and Public Finance, 1999 - Springer
Page 1. International Tax and Public Finance, 6, 289–315 (1999) c 1999 Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Explaining Welfare
Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market ROBERT A. MOFFITT ...
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The role of randomized field trials in social science research: A perspective from evaluations of reforms of social welfare programs

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Page 1. TECHNICAL WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ROLE OF RANDOMIZED FIELD
TRIAL IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: A PERSPECTIVE FROM EVALUATIONS OF
REFORMS OF SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS Robert A. Moffitt ...
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Historical Growth in Participation in Aid to Families with Dependent Children: Was There a Structural Shift?

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R Moffitt - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1987 - JSTOR
The dramatic increase in the growth rate of the caseload of the US Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC) program in the late 1960s and early 1970s remains the most
important historical change in one of the most well-known welfare programs in the country. ...
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Participation in the AFDC program and the stigma of welfare receipt: estimation of a choice-theoretic model

R Moffitt - Southern Economic Journal, 1981 - JSTOR
One of the important issues in policy discussions of the present welfare system and of
welfare-reform alternatives concerns the degree to which low-income families eligible for
welfare will in fact participate. In the major program in the current system, Aid to Families ...
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[CITATION] Earnings and Wage Distributions in the NLS, CPS, and PSID

P Gottschalk… - Part I of Final Report to the US Department of Labor. …, 1992
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Trends in the variances of permanent and transitory earnings in the US and their relation to earnings mobility

RA Moffitt… - Boston College Working Papers in …, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
Downloadable! We use the Michigan Panel Data Study on Income Dynamics to decompose the
well-known rise in cross-sectional variance of individual male earnings in the US into permanent
and transitory components. We find that about half of the increase has arisen from an ...
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Estimating marginal treatment effects in heterogeneous populations

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R Moffitt - Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2008 - JSTOR
This paper proposes a nonparametric method of estimating marginal treatment effects in
heterogeneous populations. Building upon an insight of Heckman and Vytlacil, the
conventional treatment effects model with heterogeneous effects is shown to imply that ...
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Social security, earnings tests, and age at retirement

G Burtless… - Public Finance Review, 1986 - pfr.sagepub.com
Page 1. 3 SOCIAL SECURITY, EARNINGS TESTS, AND AGE AT RETIREMENT GAR Y
BURTLESS Brookings Institution ROBERT A. MOFFITT Brown University The effect of a Social
Security system on the decision to retire is a matter of considerable controversy. ...
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Handedness and earnings

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CS Ruebeck, JE Harrington Jr… - Laterality, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labour market and, in
particular, to earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels
of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than ...
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Postwar fertility cycles and the Easterlin hypothesis: a life-cycle approach.

RA Moffitt - Research in population economics, 1982 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. Res Popul Econ. 1982;4:237-52. Postwar fertility cycles and the Easterlin hypothesis: a
life-cycle approach. Moffitt RA. The Easterlin hypothesis is discussed in the context of the
life-cycle model. Fertility rates rose by 15% after World War II, and have fallen steadily since. ...
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[CITATION] Work incentives in transfer programs (revisited)

R Moffitt - 1985 - Institute for Research on Poverty
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