TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Card, David
        TI  - Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System
        PY  - 2000/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 172
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp172
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - Welfare reform
KW  - financial incentives
        ER  -