The Take-up of Social Benefits.

Currie, J. (2004). The Take-up of Social Benefits. Public Policy and the Distribution of Income.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2004

Link

https://www.nber.org/papers/w10488

Cited from

cognitive_science, economics_finance

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Invisible Affordance
  • Statutory rights and public-service uptake: legal remedies unused for decades despite being published and indexed, and free services (vaccination, hotlines, legal aid) reaching their population at low rates because announcement surfaces are not sampled surfaces.

    This sourceIn Alan Auerbach, David Card, and John Quigley, eds., Public Policy and the Income Distribution. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006: 80-148. Surveys evidence that eligible populations fail to claim benefits and use free public services at low rates, with lack of information/awareness (announcement not reaching the eligible population) a leading cause.

• Screening
  • Empirical work on welfare take-up (Currie 2006

    This sourceSurvey establishing that administrative barriers and transaction costs materially reduce take-up of welfare benefits and that automatic or default enrollment tends to raise take-up.

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