Initial impacts of the Ticket to Work program: estimates based on exogenous variation in Ticket mail months

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stapleton, David ^a   Mamun, Arif ^a   Page, Jeremy ^a  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment services; Impact analysis; Social Security disability benefits; Ticket to Work; Voucher

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983319762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21939004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9004-3-6     Document Type: Article

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