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Safety Net Stress: Economic Responses to Complex Program Design
Safety Net Stress: Economic Responses to Complex Program Design
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260209102854
- ISBN
- 9798291567746
- DDC
- 320
- 서명/저자
- Safety Net Stress: Economic Responses to Complex Program Design
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 166 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Miller, Sarah Marie;Stephens, Melvin, Jr.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약To make ends meet each month, low-income American families rely on labor earnings, savings, borrowing, or monthly transfer income. If resources are inaccessible when expenses or unanticipated shocks arise, then families may experience adverse outcomes such as material hardships, stress and debt accumulation. My dissertation considers how complexity in social safety net programs affects resource access. Across three related chapters, I use empirical methods, in combination with large-scale administrative and experimental data, to learn about how access to public benefits, labor-market earnings, and unconditional cash income affects the economic well-being of low-income families. In the first chapter, we study the downstream economic consequences of not meeting safety net work requirements. We quantify economic responses using novel administrative data covering the full caseload of Michigan's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, combined with monthly enrollment records in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid, as well as quarterly Unemployment Insurance earnings records. We find that penalties result in persistent enrollment declines in SNAP and Medicaid for all household members, even those still eligible for programs. Moreover, when policy reform increased the length of time that families were removed from TANF after violating work requirements, we find that far fewer families re-attach to TANF and formal employment declines due to a decreasing rate of job entry. Our findings indicate that sanctions reduce broader safety net attachment and increase economic instability for vulnerable families over the long-term. Chapter two next explores how random issuance timing of SNAP and TANF shapes intra-month benefit spending patterns for recipients. I use administrative data of SNAP and TANF spending covering over 40,000 program participants living across five U.S. states to study how multiple benefit issuance frequency shapes intra-month spending. Because SNAP and TANF issuance dates are randomly assigned, otherwise similar beneficiaries receive their benefits within a few days of one another, or as much as two weeks apart. I find that staggering benefit issuance by two weeks, relative to issuing benefits all at once, decreases benefit spending and increases the amount of benefits remaining at the end of the benefit month. Findings demonstrate that staggering transfers for very low-income families can help smooth benefit spending and increase resource access. Finally, the third chapter reports on the results of a randomized controlled study of a one-time $1,000 unconditional cash transfer in May 2020 to families with low incomes in twelve U.S. states. While unconditional cash can be used flexibly to fill in resource gaps, we find no statistically significant effects of the cash transfer on reported material hardship, mental health challenges, parenting behavior, child well-being, or partner conflict for the full sample. In pre-specified exploratory analyses, we find significant reductions in material hardship among families with less than $500 of earnings in the previous month, roughly the bottom 50 percent of monthly earnings for the study sample. Our results highlight the need for more research to understand how the frequency of unconditional cash transfers, transfer size, level of saturation, and whether the transfers are anticipated versus unanticipated affect well-being in the U.S. Taken together, these papers demonstrate that families navigate high levels of economic complexity on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Policies to reduce penalties or simplify program rules have the potential to increase economic stability and program access among low-income families.
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- Safety net
- 키워드
- Public economics
- 키워드
- Labor supply
- 키워드
- Social policy
- 키워드
- Cash transfers
- 키워드
- Causal inference
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Public Policy & Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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