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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Other Behavioral Responses to Transfer Programs<br />

Bitler, Gelbach, and Hoynes (2005): distributional effects are very<br />

important in understanding welfare programs because of nonlinearities<br />

in bc → cannot just look at means<br />

Other studies have examined effects of low-income assistance<br />

programs on other margins such as family structure (divorce rate,<br />

number of kids) and find limited effects<br />

Empirical work on tagging and in-kind programs is more limited and is<br />

an important area for further research<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 126 / 217

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