Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach

This paper previously circulated under the title "What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adjustment." We thank the editor and four referees for helpful comments that greatly improved the paper. We also thank Andres Santos and seminar participants and discussants at the NBER Public Economics and Labor Studies Program Meetings, the Becker-Friedman Institute Interactions Conference, the Institute for Research on Poverty meetings, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Harris School, Mannheim University, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCL, UCLA, UCSD, Rice University, the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, Stanford, and Yale for useful comments. Stuart Craig, Attila Lindner, and Raffaele Saggio provided outstanding research assistance. This research was supported by NSF Grant #0962352. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• January 9, 2015
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