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Welcome to CyberEconomics, the easy-to-use way to learn economics on the web. ... The question of whether in-kind transfers are better than cash transfers is important when governments devote hundreds of billions of dollars to transfers. At one time the government gave food to the poor; now it gives food stamps.
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ingrimayne.com/econ/MaximizingBeha/InKind.html
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Definitions of the important terms you need to know about in order to understand Income Distribution, including Buyer , Competition , Equilibrium Price , Gini Coefficient , Goods and Services , Income Distribution , Income Mobility , In-kind Transfer , Lorenz Curve , Market-Clearing Price , Market ...
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Economists have strong theoretical predictions about how in-kind transfer programs -- such as providing vouchers for food -- impact consumption. Despite the prominence of the theory, there has been little empirical work documenting actual responses to in-kind transfers.
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www.nber.org/papers/w13025
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Work (a program with la rge transfers) to 0.51 for; I; Discussion Paper BRIEFS; Food Consumption and Nutrition Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute; The analysis clearly indicates that in-kind transfers targeted to poor women and children in;
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www.ifpri.org/divs/fcnd/dp/papers/fcnbr134.pdf
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Economists have frequently argued that cash transfers are to be preferred to in-kind transfers. ... The fact that in-kind transfers are worth less than cash but worth more to the poor than to the rich, offers the attractive prospect of being able to both relieve poverty and improve work incentives.
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ideas.repec.org/p/ifs/ifsewp/97-07.html
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Janet Currie, 1994. "Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers," NBER Chapters, in: Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 8, pages 1-44 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/4539.html
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a. Food Stamp Program: in-kind transfers vs. cash grants ... c. In-kind subsidy vs. cash grants (based on Frank): Suppose that Jim buys 10 hours of child care which is subsidized at the ... Why are most welfare programs designed as in-kind transfers/subsidies and not cash grants? (Case from San Francisco – Care Not Cash.)
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www.csusm.edu/rrider/301_8.1.htm
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This paper provides evidence on the redistributive impact of transferring low quality goods in-kind. I study a school feeding program in Jamaica, which distributes a bland snack to all students. Poorer households and those with more eligible children are found significantly more likely to self-select into the program.
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=8556
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Recent literature on optimal nonlinear taxation has shown that in models with a single level of government public provision of private goods can help redistribution by mitigating self-selection constraints. The aim of the present paper is to extend the analysis to a fiscal federalism setting with two levels of government.
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swopec.hhs.se/uunewp/abs/uunewp2004_015.htm
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