Distinguished lecture on economics in government: Fighting poverty: Lessons from recent U.S. history

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 3-19

  Blank, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0001771475     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.14.2.3     Document Type: Article

References (23)

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2. Bernstein, Jared and John Schmitt. 1998. Making Work Pay: The Impact of the 1996-97 Minimum Wage Increase. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute.
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4. Blank, Rebecca M. 1993. "Why Were Poverty Rates So High in the 1980s?" in Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N. Wolff, eds. New York and London: Macmillan.
5. Blank, Rebecca M. and Alan Blinder. 1986. "Macroeconomics, Income Distribution and Poverty," in Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn't? Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
6. Blank, Rebecca M., David Card and Philip K. Robins. 2000, forthcoming. "Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families," in Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform. Rebecca M. Blank and David Card, eds. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
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