Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Choi
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Welfare Participation ◽  
State Welfare

scholarly journals Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 972-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Kline ◽  
Melissa Tartari
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Revealed Preference ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Welfare Participation ◽  
Actual Choice ◽  
Optimizing Model ◽  
Revealed Preference Approach ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Participation Decisions

We study the short-term impact of Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment on women's labor supply and welfare participation decisions. A nonparametric optimizing model is shown to restrict the set of counterfactual choices compatible with each woman's actual choice. These revealed preference restrictions yield informative bounds on the frequency of several intensive and extensive margin responses to the experiment. We find that welfare reform induced many women to work but led some others to reduce their earnings in order to receive assistance. The bounds on this latter “ opt-in” effect imply that intensive margin labor supply responses are nontrivial. (JEL H23, H75, I38, J16, J22)

Daily Labor Supply and Adaptive Reference Points

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (8) ◽  
pp. 2417-2443
Author(s):  
Neil Thakral ◽  
Linh T. Tô
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Reference Dependence ◽  
Field Evidence ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
Expected Earnings ◽  
Dependence Models

This paper provides field evidence on how reference points adjust, a degree of freedom in reference-dependence models. Examining this in the context of cabdrivers’ daily labor-supply behavior, we ask how the within-day timing of earnings affects decisions. Drivers work less in response to higher accumulated income, with a strong effect for recent earnings that gradually diminishes for earlier earnings. We estimate a structural model in which drivers work toward a reference point that adjusts to deviations from expected earnings with a lag. This dynamic view of reference dependence reconciles conflicting “neoclassical” and “behavioral” interpretations of evidence on daily labor-supply decisions. (JEL J22, J31, L94)

Using Labor Supply Results to Simulate Welfare Reform Alternatives

1980 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
DAVID BETSON ◽  
DAVID GREENBERG ◽  
RICHARD KASTEN
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Labor Supply

A Structural Model of Labor Supply and Child Care Demand

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Michalopoulos ◽  
Philip K. Robins ◽  
Irwin Garfinkel
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Structural Model
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