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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Finkelstein, Amy, Notowidigdo, Matthew J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: National Bureau of Economic Research 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123496