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Choice Reviews Online, 2005
This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families,... more This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families, or organizations were randomly assigned to alternative policy regimes, to see what difference a policy change would make in their everyday behavior. Information on experimental designs, locations, generalizability, references, and the existence of public-use access to the underlying data are included in the summaries.
Abstract: The New Hope Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was developed to reduce poverty and refor... more Abstract: The New Hope Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was developed to reduce poverty and reform welfare by providing adults who are willing to work least 30 hours per week with the following: help obtaining a job, including time-limited, minimum wage community ...
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999
In social experiments, individuals, households, or organizations are randomly assigned to two or ... more In social experiments, individuals, households, or organizations are randomly assigned to two or more policy interventions. Elsewhere, we have summarized 143 experiments completed by autumn 1996. Here, we use the information we have gathered on these experiments and findings from informal telephone interviews to investigate the social experiment market--the buyers and sellers in the market that governs the production of experiments. We discuss target populations, types of interventions tested, trends in design, funding sources, industry concentration, the role of economists in social experimentation, the reasons few social experiments have been conducted outside the United States, and the future of the social experiment market.
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Some issues in the application of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) remain contentious. Although a stro... more Some issues in the application of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) remain contentious. Although a strong conceptual case can be made for taking account of the marginal excess tax burden (METB) in conducting BCAs, it is usually excluded. Although a strong conceptual case can be made that BCA should not include distributional values, some analysts continue to advocate doing so. We discuss the cases for inclusion of the METB and the exclusion of distributional weights from what we refer to as “core” BCA, which we argue should be preserved as a protocol for assessing allocative efficiency. These issues are topical because a recent article in this journal recommends ignoring the METB on the grounds that desirable distributional effects offset its cost. We challenge the logic of this article and explain why it may encourage inefficient policies.
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
J Policy Anal Manag, 2007
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The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981
Journal of Economic Literature, 1997
Choice Reviews Online, 2005
This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families,... more This volume contains interpretive summaries of 144 demonstrations in which individuals, families, or organizations were randomly assigned to alternative policy regimes, to see what difference a policy change would make in their everyday behavior. Information on experimental designs, locations, generalizability, references, and the existence of public-use access to the underlying data are included in the summaries.
Abstract: The New Hope Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was developed to reduce poverty and refor... more Abstract: The New Hope Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was developed to reduce poverty and reform welfare by providing adults who are willing to work least 30 hours per week with the following: help obtaining a job, including time-limited, minimum wage community ...
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999
In social experiments, individuals, households, or organizations are randomly assigned to two or ... more In social experiments, individuals, households, or organizations are randomly assigned to two or more policy interventions. Elsewhere, we have summarized 143 experiments completed by autumn 1996. Here, we use the information we have gathered on these experiments and findings from informal telephone interviews to investigate the social experiment market--the buyers and sellers in the market that governs the production of experiments. We discuss target populations, types of interventions tested, trends in design, funding sources, industry concentration, the role of economists in social experimentation, the reasons few social experiments have been conducted outside the United States, and the future of the social experiment market.
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Some issues in the application of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) remain contentious. Although a stro... more Some issues in the application of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) remain contentious. Although a strong conceptual case can be made for taking account of the marginal excess tax burden (METB) in conducting BCAs, it is usually excluded. Although a strong conceptual case can be made that BCA should not include distributional values, some analysts continue to advocate doing so. We discuss the cases for inclusion of the METB and the exclusion of distributional weights from what we refer to as “core” BCA, which we argue should be preserved as a protocol for assessing allocative efficiency. These issues are topical because a recent article in this journal recommends ignoring the METB on the grounds that desirable distributional effects offset its cost. We challenge the logic of this article and explain why it may encourage inefficient policies.
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
J Policy Anal Manag, 2007
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00036846 2013 776664, May 7, 2013
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981
Journal of Economic Literature, 1997