@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp172,
            	author={Card, David},
            	title={Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System},
            	year={2000},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={172},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp172},
	abstract={This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance of financial incentives in the welfare participation and work decisions of low-income single mothers. Enhanced incentives induce a significant fraction of welfare recipients to leave the program and enter work. They also have a relatively large anti-poverty effect. Moreover, when incentives are offered to relatively short-term recipients, they can actually save the government money.},
	keywords={Welfare reform;financial incentives},
            }