It's No Laffer'Matter: Claim That Increasing Welfare Aid Breeds Poverty and Dependence Fails Statistical Test

Autor:	Sanford F. Schram, Paul H. Wilken
Rok vydání:	1989
Předmět:	Macroeconomics Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science Poverty media_common.quotation_subject Discount points Laffer curve Welfare dependency Order (exchange) Economics Demographic economics Welfare Statistical hypothesis testing media_common
Zdroj:	American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 48:203-217
ISSN:	1536-7150 0002-9246
DOI:	10.1111/j.1536-7150.1989.tb02118.x
Popis:	The claim is analyzed that there is a Laffer-type relationship between welfare spending and poverty. Conservative analysts in recent years have asserted that over the last several decades poverty declined with increased welfare spending up to a point, beyond which increases in spending produced increases in poverty. Measures of pre-transfer and pre-welfare poverty are used in order to account for poverty due to welfare dependency. Employing data for 1959-1983, the authors find evidence which casts doubt on the validity of the hypothesis that there has been a Laffer-type relationship between welfare spending and poverty.
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