Transfer program complexity and the take-up of social benefits

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-90

  Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen ^a,b   Kopczuk, Wojciech ^c,d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d CEPR and NBER   (United States)

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EID: 79958187919     PISSN: 19457731     EISSN: 1945774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/pol.3.1.54     Document Type: Article

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