Stigma model of welfare fraud and non-take-up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data

Kenichi Kurita (), Nobuaki Hori and Yuya Katafuchi

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper attempts to challenge two puzzles in the welfare program. The first puzzle is `non-take-up welfare,' which occurs when needy people do not take up welfare. Second, in some countries, the benefit level is high, but the recipient ratio is low; while the other nations have lower benefit levels but higher recipient ratios. We present a model of welfare stigma in which both non-take-up and welfare fraud exist within the equilibrium. This shows the possibility for the recipient ratio to decrease as the benefit level increases in the comparative statics. Our empirical results are consistent with our theoretical results.

Keywords: Stigma; Non-take-up; Minimum income guarantee; OECD panel data; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H31 H53 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102009/1/MPRA_paper_102009.pdf original version (application/pdf)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102104/1/MPRA_paper_102104.pdf revised version (application/pdf)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102787/1/MPRA_paper_102787.pdf revised version (application/pdf)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104043/1/MPRA_paper_104043.pdf revised version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Stigma model of welfare fraud and non‐take‐up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data (2022)
Working Paper: Stigma model of welfare fraud and non-take-up: Theory and evidence from OECD panel data (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:102009

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().