Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780226533568
Subjects: Welfare & benefit systems; Business & Economics; Sociology; Business/Economics; USA; General; Poverty; Business & Economics / General; Congresses; Income maintenance programs; Public welfare; United States
First sentence: The system of means-tested transfer in the United States continues to be an important area of research by economists as well as a topic of intense policy interest.
Description: This volume provides an overview of how US government programmes actually work, offering information on the nation's nine largest 'means-tested' programmes - that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each programme, contributors describe origins and goals, summarise policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each programme, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations.
Notes: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report