Does welfare policy affect residential choices? An empirical investigation accounting for policy endogeneity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fiva, Jon H.
• 署名单位: University of Oslo
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.11.001
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 529-540
• 关键词: welfare benefits; migration; Policy endogeneity

摘要

This paper studies how changes in welfare policy affect welfare recipients' residential choices. Although several empirical studies have stressed that welfare policy may affect residential choices of welfare recipients, few studies have simultaneously taken into account that residential choices of welfare recipients are also likely to affect welfare policy. This paper utilizes a policy reform to address this policy endogeneity. The results show that welfare policy exerts a substantial effect on residential choices of welfare recipients. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.