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Forthcoming Articles

'The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth', Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago), Erik Hurst (University of Chicago), Charles I. Jones (Stanford University), Peter J. Klenow (Stanford University).
'Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives', Marco Tabellini (Harvard).

Past Highlight

"Obligation" by Jasleen Kaur, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 / Desaturated from original, with colour filter.

20 April 2016 Labour Markets Authors: Patrick Kline (Berkeley), Melissa Tartari (Chicago)

Did welfare reform lead some American families to work less?

The landmark US welfare reform of 1996 provided strong incentives for poor women to work while receiving assistance – but it also provided incentives for some women to reduce their earnings to qualify for benefits. This research develops a new approach to detecting this ‘welfare opt-in’ effect and uses it to analyze data from a large randomized evaluation of welfare reform in Connecticut: the “Jobs First” program.

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