Welfare generosity: The importance of administrative efficiency, community values, and genuine benevolence

Applied Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1045-1054

  Ribar, David C ^a   Wilhelm, Mark O ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELLING APPROACH; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MODEL; PUBLIC SUPPORT; WELFARE EXPENDITURE;

USA;

EID: 0030434462     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368496328173     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Americans for Democratic Action (1988-1991) ADA Today, Washington, DC.
2. Burtless, G. (1990) The economist's lament: public assistance in America, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 4, 57-78.
3. Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives (1992) The Green Book: Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, US, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
4. Craig, S. and Inman, R.P. (1986) Education welfare and the 'new' federalism: state budgeting in a federalist public economy, in Studies in State and Local Public Finance, ed. H. Rosen, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
5. Ellwood, D. (1988) Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family, Basic Books, New York.
6. Gramlich, E. (1982) An econometric examination of the new federalism, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2: 327-60.
7. Gramlich, E. and Laren, D. (1984) Migration and income redistribution responsibilities, Journal of Human Resources, 19, 489-511.
8. Heclo, H. (1986) The political foundations of antipoverty policy, in Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doestn't, eds S. Danziger and W. Weinberg, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
9. Hochman, H. and Rodgers, J. (1969) Pareto optimal redistribution, American Economic Review, 59, 542-57.
10. Hulten, C., McCallum, J., Durman, E. and Michel, R. (1982) A model of state determination of AFDC benefits, mimeo, Urban Institute.
11. Mead, L. (1986) Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship, Free Press, New York.
12. Moffitt, R. (1984) The effects of grants-in-aid on state and local expenditures: the case of AFDC, Journal of Public Economics, 23, 279-305.
13. Moffitt, R. (1990) Has state redistribution policy grown more conservative? National Tax Journal, 43, 123-42.
14. Moffitt, R. (1992) Incentive effects of the US welfare system: a review, Journal of Economic Literature, 30, 1-61.
15. Murray, C. (1984) Losing Ground: America's Social Policy, 1950-1980, Basic Books, New York.
16. National Opinion Research Center (1992) General Social Survey, 1972-91: Cumulative Codebook, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
17. Orr, L. (1976) Income transfers as a public good: an application to AFDC, American Economic Review, 66, 359-71.
18. Orr, L. (1979) Food stamps for AFDC families: income supplementation or fiscal relief? mimeo, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
19. Peterson, P. and Rom, M. (1989) American federalism, welfare policy and residential choices, American Political Science Review, 83, 711-28.
20. Plotnick, R. (1986) An interest group model of direct income redistribution, Review of Economics and Statistics, 68, 594-602.
21. Plotnick, R. and Winters, R. (1985) A politico-economic theory of income redistribution, American Political Science Review, 79, 458-73.
22. Ribar, D. and Wilhelm, M. (1994a) Charitable contributions to international relief and development, mimeo, Pennsylvania State University.
23. Ribar, D. and Wilhelm, M. (1994b) The effects of costs, resources, interstate and interprogram competition, and redistributional preferences on AFDC expenditures, mimeo, Pennsylvania State University.
24. Shapiro, I., Sheft, M., Strawn, J., Summer, L., Greenstein, R. and Gold, S. (1991) The States and the Poor: How Budget Decisions in 1991 Affected Low Income People, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC.
25. Shroder, M. (1992) A test of the external-effects argument against subnational redistribution, mimeo, US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
26. Smeeding, T. (1992) Why the US antipoverty system doesn't work very well, Challenge, 35(1), 30-35.
27. Tweedie, J. (1991) Looking to the states: a state-centered model of welfare policymaking, mimeo, State University of New York, Binghampton.
28. US Bureau of Labor Statistics (various years) Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
29. US Bureau of the Census (1990) Current Population Reports, Series P-25, No. 1058, State Population and Household Estimates: July 1, 1989, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
30. US Bureau of the Census (1992) Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 175, Poverty in the United States: 1990, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
31. Weber, N. (ed.) (1990) Giving USA, American Association of FundRaising Counsel, New York.
32. Wolpert, J. (1988) The geography of diversity: metropolitan disparities in donations and support for the amenities, Annals of the Association of American Geographics, 78, 665-79.
33. Woodson, R. (1987) The poor and conservatives versus and poverty industry, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC.