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 tries to challenge two puzzles in the welfare benefit program. The first puzzle is non-take-up welfare which means poor people do not take-up welfare even though they are approved to take-up. Second, empirical evidence suggests that there may exist the inverse U-shaped relationship between benefit level and beneficiary ratio. We present a model of welfare stigma as a hypothesis to explain the above puzzles. Specifically, we investigate the statistical discrimination view model. Results are summarized as the relationship between two types of elasticity.

Keywords: Stigma; 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: 2019-02-01
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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 (2020)
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