When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project
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Keywords
welfare-to-work policies; social experiments; Self-Sufficiency Project;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2016-06-14 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2016-06-14 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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