Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
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DOI：
10.1257/aer.20160921
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Lockwood, Lee M.
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作者：
Fetter, Daniel K.;Lockwood, Lee M.
许多政府计划将资源转移给老年人，并隐性或明确地向他们的劳动力征税。我们通过调查老年援助计划（OAA），对此类计划的劳动力供给和福利影响有了新的认识。利用各州 OAA 计划的巨大差异以及 1940 年美国全体人口的人口普查数据，我们发现 OAA 将 65 至 74 岁男性的劳动力参与率降低了 8.5 个百分点，超过 1930 年和 1940 年降幅的一半，但 OAA 的隐性收入税只给受益人带来了很小的福利成本。
Many government programs transfer resources to older people and implicitly or explicitly tax their labor We shed new light on the labor supply and welfare effects of such programs by investigating the Old Age Assistance Program (OAA). Exploiting the large differences in OAA programs across states and Census data on the entire US population in 1940, we find that OAA reduced the labor force participation rate among men aged 65 74 by 8.5 percentage points, more than one-half of its 1930 1940 decline, but that OAA's implicit taxation of earnings imposed only small welfare costs on recipients.