It's No Laffer'Matter
Claim That Increasing Welfare Aid Breeds Poverty and Dependence Fails Statistical Test
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2815947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Schram (0000-0002-3158-9941, Albany State University), Sanford F Schram (0000-0003-4282-3286), Paul H Wilken (Albany State University) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-217 |
| Publication date | 1989-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1989.tb02118.x |
| OpenAlex | W1972182303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Laffer curve · Measuring poverty · Order (exchange) · Poverty · Public economics · Welfare · Welfare dependency · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 1992 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |