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Projections of Poverty and Program Eligibility

Projections of Poverty and Program Eligibility during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowdown in economic activity have impacted the well-being of many U.S. families.
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Recent Employment Patterns among Parents

Recent Employment Patterns among Parents

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Employment Patterns Among Persons with Children

Employment Patterns Among Persons with Children During the Recession

From: Employment Patterns Among Persons with Children During the Recession
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Work Histories and Employment Outcomes of Single

Work Histories and Employment Outcomes of Single Mothers

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Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A

Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2012 Current Population Survey Data

From: Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2012 Current Population Survey Data
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Review of Income Concepts Used in Economic

Review of Income Concepts Used in Economic Analysis

Prepared by: R. William Thomas Abt Associates Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Contract:   HEW-100-76-0179 Each chapter of the Report is in PDF format.  Download a copy of the reader .
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Volume 2: Administration

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Volume 2: Administration

Chapters Introduction:  An Overview of the Experiment Sample Selection Enrollment Rules of Operation Sample Control and Maintenance Benefit Payment Calculation and Administration Survey Instrument Design, Development, and Content Administration of Interview Payments Verification and Overpayment
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Volume 1: Design and Results

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Volume 1: Design and Results

Part I:  HISTORY AND DESIGN Chapters Introduction and History Experimental Treatments and Expected Responses to Them Sample Selection and Distribution Issues in the Measurement of Experimental Effects The Payment System in SIME/DIME The Information System Summary Part II:  IMPLEMENTATION Chapters
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Appendix: Table of Contents of Final Report

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Appendix: Table of Contents of Final Report

The interested reader is referred to the two-volume Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983) for a complete discussion of the design, administration, and results of SIME/DIME.  Below is the Table of Contents for that report.
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Footnotes

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Footnotes

1.  These correspond to 95%, 120%, and 140% of the official poverty line for a family of four ($4,000 in 1971 dollars).  The relationship of these levels to the poverty line was preserved throughout the experimental period by adjusting the dollar guarantee levels regularly according to increases in the Consumer Price Index, as in the poverty lin
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Counseling/Training

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Counseling/Training

With respect to the counseling/training subsidy results, two major points deserve emphasis.  Participation in both the counseling and training-education programs was strongly related to the amount of the subsidy.  Both the 50 percent and 100 percent subsidy plans induced statistically significant increases in formal schooling (although not work-
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Labor Supply

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Labor Supply

The work responses to be expected from transfer programs of varying generosity are much more precisely know as a result of SIME/DIME than they were before.  It is now possible, as a consequence of the SIME/DIME labor supply analysis, to predict with some confidence how much more or less people will work as a result of new policy initiatives and w
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Marital Stability

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Marital Stability

How can the SIME/DIME results be used as a guide to the possible effects on family structure of new public policy initiatives?  The analyst themselves "caution the reader against uncritically extrapolating from these or any other summary measure of the effects of SIME/DIME on marital dissolution." (11)   They stress as reasons for this statement
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Conclusions Suggested by the SIME/DIME Results

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Conclusions Suggested by the SIME/DIME Results

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Effects on Marital Stability (9)

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Effects on Marital Stability (9)

Although, as mentioned earlier, the experiment was not explicitly designed to test effects on marital stability, much attention was paid to the issue in terms of both data collection and analysis.  To the extent that the effects of the experiment on marital dissolution were expected to depend on the guarantee and the tax rate, and to the extent t
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Counseling/Training Subsidy Effects

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Counseling/Training Subsidy Effects

A unique feature of SIME/DIME among the four NIT experiments was the testing of a labor market counseling and training subsidy program in addition to a negative income tax transfer program.  The rationale for including these programs was to determine whether increased labor market information and increased education and training could offset the
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Cash Transfer Effects on Labor Supply

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Cash Transfer Effects on Labor Supply

The labor supply results for husbands, wives, female family heads, and youth will be summarized in turn.  For each group, the overall response to the SIME/DIME negative income tax plans taken together is described first.  A discussion of differences in response among the different NIT plans follows.
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Introduction

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. Introduction

The major SIME/DIME results are presented under three headings.  First, the effects of the experiment on work effort or labor supply are presented.  The primary focus is the effect of eligibility for a negative income tax plan, but the analysis sample used to obtain these findings includes all families enrolled in the experiments, including thos
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SIME/DIME Results

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. SIME/DIME Results

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The Sample

Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The Sample

The composition of the SIME/DIME sample was defined partly with reference to the likely population to be included in any national negative income tax program and partly to assure that important questions about the magnitude of the overall work effort response and about possible differential responses by different population groups could be satisfa

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