Longer-Run Effects of Antipoverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

David Neumark, Brian Asquith and Brittany Bass
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Brittany Bass: University of California-Irvine

No 19-302, Upjohn Working Papers from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Abstract: We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic indicators of economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged neighborhoods. We find that the longer-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance in the longer run. The evidence on the long-run effects of the minimum wage on poverty and public assistance is not robust, with some evidence pointing to reductions and some to increases.

Keywords: Neighborhood poverty; minimum wages; EITC; welfare; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 I38 J08 J21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03
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Working Paper: Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (2018)
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