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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26725 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26725 |
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? Unintended Effects of Payment Reform in a Quantity-based Transfer Program | |
Katherine Meckel | |
发表日期 | 2020-02-03 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Quantity vouchers are used in redistributive programs to shield participants from price variation and alter their consumption patterns. However, because participants are insensitive to prices, vendors of program goods are incentivized to price discriminate between program and non-program customers. I study these trade-offs in the context of a reform to reduce price discrimination in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), which provides a quantity voucher for nutritious foods to low-income mothers and children. The reform caused vendors to drop out, reducing program take-up. In addition, smaller vendors increased prices charged to non-WIC shoppers by 6.4%. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26725 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584398 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Katherine Meckel. Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? Unintended Effects of Payment Reform in a Quantity-based Transfer Program. 2020. |
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