Estimating the Regional Impact of Federal Income Maintenance Programs.

T. P. Schultz

Expert InsightsPublished 1972

Welfare reforms now pending before Congress would change the system of rewards and taxation that bear upon the working and nonworking poor with substantial regional repercussions. RAND research is developing a methodology to draw inferences on the primary effects of income maintenance programs on interregional migration and labor supply decisions of households that will eliminate some of the deficiencies of past studies of labor supply. The market labor supply decision will be analyzed in a household time-allocation model; simultaneous equations techniques will be used to estimate income and substitution effects of the welfare reform; and theoretical and statistical considerations will dictate the choice of sample and the measurement of labor supply and wages. Models of migration will interpret the cost of investable funds required to finance migration as a determinant of the migration process, and the decisionmaking unit for married couples will be the family. 11 pp.

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  • Year: 1972
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  • Document Number: P-4818

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