| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24652 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24652 |
| Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP | |
| Amy Finkelstein; Matthew J. Notowidigdo | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-05-28 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly individuals not enrolled in – but likely eligible for – the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are either provided with information that they are likely eligible, provided with this information and also offered assistance in applying, or are in a “status quo” control group. Only 6 percent of the control group enrolls in SNAP over the next 9 months, compared to 11 percent of the Information Only group and 18 percent of the Information Plus Assistance group. The individuals who apply or enroll in response to either intervention receive lower benefits and are less sick than the average enrollee in the control group. The results are consistent with the existence of optimization frictions that are greater for needier individuals, suggesting that the poor targeting properties of the interventions reduce their welfare gains. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24652 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582325 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Amy Finkelstein,Matthew J. Notowidigdo. Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP. 2018. |
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| w24652.pdf（746KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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