Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly individual...
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National Bureau of Economic Research
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123496 |