Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
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改革福利制度的财政激励
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.250115
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发表时间：
2000
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通讯作者：
David Card
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作者：
David Card
本文总结了自给自足项目的研究结果：一个大规模的社会实验，正在加拿大进行的高功率的财政激励全职工作的前福利受助人的影响进行评估。实验结果证实了经济激励在低收入单身母亲的福利参与和工作决策中的重要性。强化的激励措施促使很大一部分福利领取者离开该方案，进入工作岗位。也有较大的扶贫效果。此外，当激励措施提供给相对短期的受助人时，他们实际上可以节省政府的钱。
This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work decisions of low-income single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to leave the program and enter work. They also have a relatively large anti-poverty effect. Moreover, when incentives are offered to relatively short-term recipients, they can actually save the government money.